Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweetness & light was almost unbelievable. When a reporter who knew his laborites suggested that perhaps Citrine had inspired a recent attack on the C.I.O., Hillman rasped: "That is a vicious, dirty thought, and it could only come from a dirty mind...
...cture has all the makings of the genuine article: a pretty, sharpshooting cowgirl (Loretta Young), a vicious bandit (Dan Duryea), a stagecoach holdup, posses, fast horses, plenty of shooting, a singing cowboy hero known as Melody Jones (Cooper). He doesn't sing much, and he doesn't so much sing as mumble shyly, but it is the first time in his 51 pictures that he has sung at all, and it's a good song (Old Joe Clark). But the audience knows something is amiss the first time Gary draws his shooting iron-and almost maims himself...
...tangled, vicious fight marked by constant Jap infiltration behind our lines, by Jap ambushes and night raids. Americans had to fight even to reach the 24th Division cemetery, now well behind the front lines, so they could bury the dead. Said one officer: "The woods are full of Japs. You go through them, and they close in right behind you." The country is heavily brushed flats broken by precipitous hills honeycombed with Jap installations. On Hill 550, a long ridge from which sheer knobs jut at intervals, one knob held 30 pillboxes and gun positions...
Borotra, the Bounding Basque of tennis, slapped his chest, cried derisively: "Me dangerous? Come, come." Said lean, sickly General Weygand: "Je m'en fou" ("I don't give a damn"). He added: "This animal isn't vicious, but when attacked it defends itself...
Thunderstruck, the Mester brothers promptly damned the FCC dictum as "very vicious," protested that their little trouble with Washington had been "all cleared up 100%." Then the brothers sat down to answer the charges in detail. They had 20 days to reply...