Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were not more precious than the gold in the ground at Fort Knox, one could wish heartily that Wheat Farmer Campbell's wheat [TIME, Nov. 17] would rot where it lies on his farms. No more damning indictment of uncontrolled capitalism can be imagined than the vicious economics of Farmer Campbell. Another way to get farmers to sell, besides that advocated by Campbell, would be to stop subsidizing them and thus force them to sell their goods for what a free and open market will bring...
...least suggestion of mugging by the actors. The producers of Nickleby have permitted Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway & Co. to tear into their meaty parts with about as much finesse as a pack of jackals. Still, this particular melodrama-which intersperses the quarrels between a vicious uncle and his virtuous nephew with a savage attack on the schools of Dickens' day -scarcely deserves better treatment...
Last week, with the Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...
...affiliation. With each candidate, excepting those men endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, conducting his own campaign, there has been no concerted effort to overcome voter inertia or crystallize important issues for the benefit of the electorate. The race for ballots seems to be diffused towards class bigotry and vicious recrimination while the vital questions remain securely muzzled...
Calling the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance "a comparatively vicious organization," Marre says that there is no danger from communism. Having directed a G.I. repretory theater in Berlin, he can boast of considerable stage and screen experience...