Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobile bearing five Fascist bullyboys and a kidnapped man raced out of Rome. The gang leader was vicious, U.S.-born Amerigo Dumini, henchman of Benito Mussolini. The victim was eloquent, anti-Fascist Giacomo Matteoti, leader of Italy's liberal and left-wing parties. His body, burned and headless, was eventually found in a ditch near Rome. His assassins were convicted but were soon freed...
...only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions in these hills. This dream and the native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth which he is sinking into Turkish gold and British sovereigns and real estate in Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo. Thus it is that, backed by 15 or 20 thousand rifles...
Canadians Forward. As the Eighth Army's "left hook," the Canadians shared the job of outflanking Catania, the eastern anchor of the German line. They slugged a path across the terraced hills. They tried their bayonets and lungs in vicious charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...
...juices, but this area did not have much mucus, and an ulcer developed when the doctors merely dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further acid secretion." The doctors healed the ulcer in three days by bandaging it with a petrolatum poultice. Atropine, which is often given to soothe ulcer sufferers, cut down...
Then, at his press conference, the President went on the defensive: the Administration was the victim of vicious propaganda. It sided neither with Giraud nor De Gaulle, it was not trying to interfere in internal French affairs. And there the contest settled into the early-inning doldrums, with no one quite sure what Pitcher Roosevelt had up his sleeve...