Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to advocate tolerance for the customary things discriminated against: race, color, creed, religion, etc. However, I do not believe you have ever made a reference to homosexuality (a perfectly legitimate psychological condition) without going specially out of your way to make a vicious insinuation, caustic remark, or "dirty...
...remarkable to discover how many insidious implications, probably unconstitutionalities, and vicious vaguencesses Attorney-General Barnes has been able to be fined ten thousand dollars for employing a maid in Dunster House who had expressed approval of the United Nations. The bill provides, in other words, for the punishment of employers of guilty persons. It also makes any employee--not only teachers, susceptibe to guilt. And it deems approval of communist party . . . doctrines" to be illegal. But it does not indicate what these "doctrines" are, and consequently support of the U.N., which is advocated in the Communist Party constitution, could certainly...
...Advocate, with a long history and plenty of contacts, has on occasion broken the vicious circle in its issues since the war. But Signature, now conducting a forum on "What is Wrong or Right with College Writing," has not been so fortunate. Believing at least partly that the reason they receive little good writing is that little is written, the editors prefer to set their hopes for succession drives for subscribers, when the main drive should be for contributors...
Fifty Bells is a changed dog. "He is no longer vicious," says Akai. "He no longer snaps. He seems now to be a humble dog." And Mrs. Akai agrees. "Yes," she says, "I guess you could say that Fifty Bells has gone democratic...
...truculence, did not look trapped. World War II Veteran McCarthy glared at World War I Veteran Ginsberg (a onetime leader in a New York veterans' organization that has plugged for lower-cost veterans' housing), and called him "the most vicious of grey marketeers...