Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense, the Stahlmen were tricked again and again by the Coast Guard's ancient "figure 8" formation. Working pick-offs on Crimson man-to-man defenders, the Cadets boxed Crimson defenders, the Cadets boxed Crimson defenders with vicious regularity. But the Coast Guard just could not hit the basket their absolute-inability to score was the only thing which saved the game for the Crimson...
...haired Publisher Cissie Patterson, 61, who publishes the biggest but not the best paper in the capital, has had insanity on her mind recently. Last week she spread her thoughts across eight columns, under the heading CRAZY-CRAZY LIKE FOXES. They added up to some of the most vicious personal slander since the days when all journalism was yellow...
...Cissie's scurrilities go, these were mere warmups. The worst she saved for her ex-son-in-law Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, whom she mortally hates. Wrote Cissie: "Ah, Drew, rose-sniffing, child-loving, child-cheater, sentimental Drew. . . . Vicious and. . . ." (Eleven more lines, reflecting on Mr. Pearson's personal habits, have been deleted by TIME. To publish them might put TIME into court for disseminating a libel...
...employers might also set up a bargaining organization similar to Britain's National Confederation of Employers' Associations. But the committee recognized one inherent danger in this. In cahoots with organized labor, "it could degenerate into a peculiarly vicious kind of a protective tariff, safeguarding undue profits and undue wages...
...succeeded in looking stodgy without being academic. Honorable mentions included Samuel Rosenberg's geometric portrait of Israel; O. Louis Guglielmi's The River, featuring hind views of three girls looking at the water, and The Quarantined Citadel, by onetime Etonian Philip Evergood. Evergood describes Citadel as "a vicious painting which represents an imaginary island where military aggressors are dumped so that they can play...