Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of New Hampshire protesting against the expulsion of students for their refusal to participate in R.O.T.C. activities and demanding the immediate reinstatement of all the dismissed students. We have urged that encouragement of war preparations in the colleges and universities through the R.O.T.C., and other military devices is vicious to the enlightened purposes which educational institutions should serve. Whereas the United States appropriates millions of dollars for the R.O.T.C., it finds itself forced to close free schools and colleges for lack of funds. This amounts to the manifest declaration on the part of the United States Government that military...
...spring zephyrs ruffle delightfully the surface of the Charles and the dresses of the doxies along its banks? But no more could these aphrodisiacs of spring enliven him, for now they aroused within him a palling cloud of defensive inactivity, which made the light breeze seem vicious, the caressing sunlight tropical, and even the grass like brittle spicules of rock...
...murder or kidnapping and manslaughter. He was examined by Dr. Harry Hoffman, Criminal Court behavior clinician. Frank of countenance and looking much like any 13-year-old, George Rogalski talked calmly. In what he called the "most fascinating" study of his experience, Dr. Hoffman pronounced the boy sane, not vicious, a "moral imbecile," a sexual psychopath hopelessly antagonistic to girls of his age and preoccupied with very young ones. Last year he was convicted, and soon paroled, by the Juvenile Court for having molested an 8-year-old. (But according to the coroner small Dorette Zietlow had not been touched...
...Club papered a private dining room with nearly 2,000 worthless bonds and stock certificates, called it the Million-dollar Room. Last week in Chicago a noisy rabble of 10,000 bondholders from 22 states marched down Michigan Boulevard tossing equally worthless bonds on the street, trampling them with vicious whoops. Led by Governor William Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled through the financial district, police motorcycles chattering...
...California, while Associated controls smallish Seaside Oil Co.; 2 ) these subsidiaries, while posing as competitors of their parent companies, conspired to sell Standard and Associated gasoline to the public under a different brand at drastically reduced prices in order to squeeze out independents. Terming this ''the most vicious price cutting war in oil history," the grand jurors carefully fixed $1,000 bail for defendants-after they are arrested. If convicted under the oil code they face $500 fine on each count. Standard's total fine would be $1,600,000, Associated...