Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisy gunpowder--a throw-back to the days when Tom Mix, Ken Maynard and Buck Jones used to hold the Saturday matinee spellbound. Remember the thrill when troops of soldiers thundered across the screen leaving their loved ones and a trail of dust behind them. And the Indians--how vicious they looked in their war paint, and how quiet they were in sneaking up on an encampment of sleeping men. But what a grand lot of noise there was when battle took place! Those were the days...
...should permit the people of the country to draft you for President. . . . I am convinced you will carry every state in the Union. . . . Let your friends in this country nail to the cross the many vicious propaganda, underhanded moves which will be started to smear and destroy...
...first time since the city was laid out, Washingtonians were united against the common foe. "Disunity!" screamed the D.C. Communist Party. The Southeast Council of Churches considered charges that Mayor Bilbo is "unpatriotic and un-Christian," solemnly resolved that he be removed. "Vicious," said the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, "un-American." The sober Washington Post editorialized: "Bilbo Runs Amok." The Scripps-Howard Daily News fumed: "This socially benighted man . . . throw...
...cats rarely learn. While the dogs are being tied up so that the cougar will not crush them in his death fall, their frenzied barking keeps the beautiful, snarling beast from springing. Some hunters have had to pump as many as 20 bullets into the vicious animal before he fell...
...Woman must secure governmental control of the munitions industry so that the vicious conditions unearthed by the Nye Committee will not be repeated. But she is never going to do this by performing the fallacious errand of scuttling back to the kitchen to search for her soul...