Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former United States Senator from Massachusetts, last night, following an off the record talk to the members of Winthrop House, termed Churchill's speech "utterly inadmissible." In regard to our relations with Russia, Lodge said that we must create a new atmosphere since the situation is a "vicious circle" at present...
...Pauley the President wrote a long letter: "With full confidence in you, I shall reluctantly withdraw your nomination [as Under Secretary of the Navy]. . . . You stand before your countrymen after vicious and unwarranted attacks with integrity unscathed, with ability unquestioned, with honor unsullied...
...home life of a baboon and his blonde-is delightful. After that, plot starts muscling in on character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway gets one of the great comedy moments of the season...
Norman Corwin, 35, radio's wonder-boy writer-producer, this week took a vicious bite at the hand that feeds and pets him. In a new book, While You Were Gone (Simon & Schuster; $3.50), Scripter Corwin charged radio with "dreadful mediocrity. . . . The average sponsor and agency ... borrow, imitate, plagiarize, and perpetuate formulas . . . and become fast slaves to ratings. Originality and experimentation are . . . firmly rejected. I believe . . . radio has a higher destiny than merely to sell soup and soap...
Joseph E. Hicswa, chubby-cheeked and 20, from Wallington, N.J., was a private in the Army. Last week he stood before a military court in Osaka. Its eight judges had found him guilty of stabbing two Japanese to death with his bayonet. The crime, they said, was "premeditated, vicious and unprovoked," and Private Hicswa was sentenced...