Word: vicious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only Crimson batters not to be completely puzzled by O'Brien's slants were John Caulfield, who singled twice, and Walt Coulson, who banged a one-bagger and was robbed of another when Eagle first baseman Dick Boyle made a brilliant diving catch of his vicious line drive in the fourth...
Infraction. In San Francisco, a notice on a Southern Pacific Railroad bulletin board announced the dismissal of "one redcap porter ... for shooting and killing wife; a violation of that part of Rule 801 reading, 'Employees who are . . . vicious . . . will not be retained in the service...
...press conference by calling Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. The reason: Pearson's charge that the President, in private conversation with an unidentified Manhattan newspaper publisher, had called New York Jews disloyal. Speaking slowly and without heat, Harry Truman told newsmen: "I want to pay attention to a vicious statement . . . it is just a lie out of whole cloth...
Once, at a meeting of political commissars, Lenin passed a note to Dzerzhinsky "How many vicious counter-revolutionaries are there in our prisons?" Dzeizhinsky's scribbled reply was: "Abou: fifteen hundred." Lenin nodded, made a cross on the note, and returned it to Dzerzhinsky. That night, on Dzerzhinsky's order, all 1,500 were shot. It turned out to be a mistake. As Lenin's secretary explained later: "Vladimir Ilyich usually puts a cross on a memorandum to indicate he has noted the contents...
...even more exposed, and perhaps more deeply hurt, are the adult innocents, who have sat out their lives in habitual disappointment or in cocoons of selfdelusion. In one of the best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed...