Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleaded gravely for labor's support of U.S. foreign policy, warned against "vicious propaganda and outrageous criticism" and reminded his 2,000 listeners that "among the first victims ... of the police state is the right of labor to organize itself for the protection of its own interests...
...much can result from the Un-American Activities Committee's motion-picture doings. There are Communists in Hollywood, as there are in every large community, and some of them may lose their jobs on account of the investigation. But to call the activities of movieland Red is a most vicious folly, serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis B. Mayer...
Badger tackling was precise and vicious. "Hit 'em at the shoe-strings" seemed the Midwesterners' motto and time after time Eli ball-carriers would find their feet blasted from under them and land with a jarring thud...
...military and civilian, receive a living wage. But raising of Government salaries will increase the inflation, inflation will raise the cost of living, the rising cost of living will quickly absorb the raises in salaries, graft will start again-nobody will be better off. How can China break this vicious circle...
There is only one answer: Finish the war. This is where the U.S. comes in. We can break the vicious circle at several points, and at a cost to ourselves which will be small compared to the advantages to be gained for our own security...