Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malmédy massacre of captured U.S. soldiers, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, was one of the most vicious atrocities committed by Germans in combat during the war. By the testimony of one survivor (who escaped by feigning death after he was shot in the foot), some 160 U.S. soldiers were lined up in a snow-covered field, eight deep and 20 abreast, and raked by machine-gun fire for three minutes...
...vicious sides to [this ridiculous] practice is that often you are bound in such a manner that you cannot go to any other source to get the story . . . Every time you bind yourself in one of these absurd confidences, you get scooped. Let the pundits take over all the off-the-record conferences. Let them use the oblique references. Let our own staffs go back to reporting...
...Dark Past (Columbia) is a study of a vicious young killer (William Holden) who is as afraid of his own twisted dreams as he is of the law. When he escapes from prison and holes up with his pals in the weekend cottage of a shrewd psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb), he finally learns from the doctor-too late-that an Oedipus complex has helped to give him a killer's warped personality...
Jacobs escaped a volley of vicious kicks only by getting a parking meter between himself and the youth. Patrolman Lawrence Brutti made the arrest a moment later...
Keeping a muscular thumb on Berkeley College throughout the game, and scoring three touchdowns, Kirkland yesterday afternoon battered its way to the Harvard-Yale intramural championship. The game was characterized by rough, at times vicious, line play...