Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the day she arrived in Washington, Clare Luce was under such a pressure of public curiosity as few Representatives had ever had to endure. Some of it was well-meaning, some of it silly, some of it vicious. She became gradually a heroine to thousands and a menace to other thousands of Third Termites...
Sputtered LaGuardia: "Have you read this paragraph? . . . Do you know what it means? Do you get that 'or not'? . . . It is intentional; it is vicious; it is malicious. Why, I ask you in the name of decency and humanity, did you put it in? Is it the [U.S.] Army? If it is the Army, come on, let us speak up. Let us say that we are going to throw [the D.P.s] to the brasshats. The program of the Army is to throw these people loose on the German economy. You know what that means...
Last week the New York Times took a long look at the problem, came up with an editorial stand against "extending Jim Crowism to the printed page . . . [which helps] build up the bad moral climate which does encourage violence among the ignorant, the weak and the vicious." Said the Times: "[In crime stories] Negroes are often identified, whereas members of other races are not. This may seem a small thing. The Negroes do not think...
...physiologists and bacteriologists assembled in secret laboratories under the Chemical Warfare Service. With them worked 3,800 Army & Navy men. In gleaming glassware grew the world's most vicious germs. A flask of cloudy liquid or a blob of nutrient jelly might contain the makings of a pandemic...
Adolph Augustus Berle Jr. had called it "close to a high-water mark in vicious finance." The Interstate Commerce Commission declared it was not in the public interest. In a last-ditch stand, Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter cried that it would cause "a scandal." Nevertheless Congress last week, in a brisk mood, passed and sent the Wheeler-Reed rail reorganization bill...