Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed enough orders to fill the gap; 2) freight car builders, hobbled by the steel strike, turned out only a piddling 14,282 cars in the first half of 1946. With steel mills cutting production for lack of cars and car builders cutting production for lack of steel, a vicious circle was being completed...
This week Bolivia had a civilian government. A junta headed by Supreme Court dean Nestor Guillen took over provisionally. The vicious military clique that had given Bolivia its fascist label faded, momentarily at least, into the background...
...accomplishments of the Big Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian reparations arid the Balkan satellite peace treaties. But the central question was what kind of Europe the victors should raise from the ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report...
...structure and personnel of Congress. He pointed out that under present practice Congressional legislation is dilatory, tends to be amended until it is useless, that Congress does not consider the effect domestic legislation will have on the nation's foreign relations; and attacked "log-rolling," and the vicious attitude of certain Congressional committees toward administrators...
...Anger is the root of both righteousness and sin. . . . The proper attitude toward evil is anger. . . We must finally be reconciled with our foe, lest we both perish in the vicious circle of hatred.. . . We are called upon again & again to be executors of divine judgment. But in the ultimate sense [the word of St. Paul] is true: 'Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord...