Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green was glum as he told newsmen of the decision. Said he: "The Taft-Hartley law is reprehensible and vicious and destructive to the legal and civil rights of workers. . . . [The council] could not conform to the Denham ruling...
...better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm," to give them freedom to bite, scratch, break furniture, tear up books, attend classes only when they have nothing else to do, is more than asinine. It is vicious...
Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
...regarded as a sort of human charm: his ship was hit twice and frequently straddled by gunfire but it suffered little damage. He saw more action after that-many an officer was comforted to see him on the bridge of the Admiral's flagship during the vicious and decisive Battles of the Philippine Sea. Sailormen took to the custom of patting his khaki shirt, just for luck...
...cherished social and historical values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...