Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade the whole affair has been moving in a vicious circle. The United States leans money to Germany; this is paid to the various European countries as reparations; they in turn pay it back to the United States as their war debts. In other words no money is paid at all. Von Papen's statement is a perfectly solid fact. Unless tariffs are lowered Germany cannot sell her goods abroad., no credit can be built up, and thus no debts can be paid. Since no country will consent to lower its tariff purely for economic idealism, the moratorium must...
Called the second-best pistol shot- and most vicious killer in Chicago's underworld, he had gone "gun crazy," began returning the fire of imaginary killers on empty streets...
...during two years' fighting the Squadron saw but one enemy plane), it was at first thought that reconnoitering would be the Kosciuszko unit's principal job. But as the sweeping, open warfare grew more intense, individual battles between airmen and Russian troops became of prime importance. So vicious was the Squadron's strafing that the Soviet Commissars put a price of 12,500 gold rubles on the U. S. flyers' heads, later doubled it. Hawking over enemy territory, pilots would bore down out of the sun, both machine guns bucking. If the concentration was heavy, they...
Harry Ford Sinclair said that a cut in crude would be followed by still lower gasoline prices, cried out: "This vicious circle is what has wrecked prices in all industries. . . . The industries that are giving away their product and their capital . . . are retarding improvement...
...penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary bicycle. Even then he will not be bothered by insects." The worst insects are ihenni, vicious black flies that hang in dark clouds in the air. There are also poisonous snakes, jaguars, piranhas (carnivorous fish). Despite the dampness, water holes are 15 to 40 miles apart...