Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warrior Ivins also had a gentle side. The one who knew it best was his plump, four-year-old grandson, Danny Ivins. Whenever Danny visited him, Ivins sent away his vicious watchdog (it had once snapped at Danny). He took Danny along on some of his politicking trips, always bragged about...
...whole ill lies with Pakistan itself." In calling itself an Islamic state, he said, Pakistan had incited Moslems against Sikhs and Hindus, thus drawing reprisals upon Moslems in India. "[We must] base citizenship on a territorial basis and forget . . . that two-nation theory which started the whole vicious circle...
Quarterback Jim Kenary, although his blocks and tackles were vicious all afternoon, watched his usually accurate passes sail over the heads of Crimson receivers. The Sophomore tossed several strikes, however, one of them for the second touchdown, and master-minded the team like a veteran...
While Russian and American newsmen comment fiercely on each other's origin and the United Nations becomes snarled in a welter of tedious recriminations, a vicious behind-the-scenes economic battle comes far closer to splitting the East and West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most...
Perhaps one of the greatest faults in "Acres and Pains" is Mr. Perelman's singularly bad choice of an illustrator. R. Osborn appears much more at home snarling at the backside of an Army Brass Hat than attempting to convey the tone of Perelman's brand of humor. The vicious, Stieg-like cartoons that made his fame in "War Is No Damned Good" have no place beside Perelman's cutting, though entireless harmless, wit. Some of the drawings are excellent, particularly a picture of two bloodthirsty children, but for the largest part they misfire and confuse the effect. These badly...