Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forbidden to bombard Briey when the chance existed, and when a ten-mile penetration of the sector would have come close to spelling German ruin. And the statement of his colleague, Deputy Barthe, in the Chamber on January 24, 1919, lost little of its significance in the long, loud, vicious debates and investigations which followed it: "I affirm that either by the fact of the international solidarity of the great metallurgy companies, or in order to safeguard private business interests, our military chiefs were ordered not to bombard the establishments of the Briey basin, which were being exploited...
Senator Hastings: The submission of this matter to a grand jury was an outrage, inspired by partisan politics of the most vicious kind...
...vicious little Gran Chaco war between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge...
...second factor is Miss Sears' manner of expressing herself. Choosing excerpts from a book is a vicious practice, but one example will illustrate this point unfortunately well and will serve as an all too fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece...
...With eyes tightly closed, legs intertwined, and head resting on one hand, he rambles on, pointing out on the floor with his free hand the precise geographical situations of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire. If, perchance, an extremely important idea hits him, be will make a vicious, but apparently meaningless line on the board, soon to be crossed by another equally pungent and equally obscure. At times of special stress the lines may become arrows flying in remarkably different directions...