Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produces a very gay atmosphere. When the circulation runs through your body, you feel happier. It becomes a happy circle instead of a vicious circle...
...Vicious & Unacceptable. For nine months Russian and U.S. delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.N. Security Council have weaved through a maze of procedural and technical arguments. The U.S. press and public got the idea that the two countries were not far apart on the basic question of whether the atom should be controlled. Behind this U.S. error lay the assumption that Russia, lacking The Bomb now and the industrial capacity to compete with the U.S. in future manufacture of it, would find control preferable to inferiority. But the men who make Kremlin policy, tougher-minded than Americans...
...against the U.S. plan is that it infringes upon the state sovereignty of every nation (as indeed it does, and as every real control plan would). Gromyko was even more violent in his attack on proposals for international development of atomic power for peaceful purposes. He called them "thoroughly vicious and unacceptable," and said: "The Soviet Union . . . cannot allow that the fate of its national economy be handed over...
...opinion expressed in the CRIMSON editorial, are not being exploited by a law permitting school buses to pick up parochial school children, so long as the taxpayers of New Jersey have chosen to put the law on the books and have chosen to keep it there. Far more vicious, it would seem to me, is the effort of a minority of the state's taxpayers run to the federal courts and upset by court ruling what the majority of taxpayers refuse to upset by majority vote. Francis Murphy Dunster...
...independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point of bankruptey and then quietly succumbed to Peron's demand for minerals and collaboration. A simple and vicious application of an agricultural tourniquet to a democratic government for political reasons vividly defines Argentina's ambitions for South American hegemony and points up her real menace to hemispheric solidarity...