Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines." But in the last decade Charles Lindbergh has "seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians...
...telephone. Then he stepped inside, pulled his pistol, snarled: "This is a stickup." While West covered the superintendent, Daniels went upstairs, got Niebel's dumpy wife and his plump, redheaded 22-year-old daughter Phyllis out of bed. The two killers gloated over their frightened victims like vicious children; demanded that Niebel order a guard named "Red" Harris to come to the house...
Experts have fished Silver Creek for as long as two weeks without a nibble, and tenderfeet have latched on to as many as eight rainbows in an hour, only to lose them, and the leaders, after a brief, vicious struggle...
...grotesque and vicious caricature. TIME'S New York is one which dwells pointedly on its noise, crowding, aggressiveness, hellish glare at night, marijuana, cockroach-infested kitchens, tigerish and provocative women, obsession with the present, propensity to sneer at Philadelphia and jeer at Boston, and coolness to visitors...
...their headquarters, carried a pretty girl through jammed lobbies in a rowboat. She held a sign which read: "Man the oars, ride the crest, Harold Stassen, he's the best." The Taft camp imported a real elephant and led it around the streets; they were rewarded with a vicious rumor-that they were doping the beast with digitalis to keep it alive...