Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also learned a lot about democracy. A less steadfast man might have been sickened by the mess, might have lost his faith in popular government. Not so Judge Ferguson. He found it no fatal fault that democracy gives its opportunities to the weak and vicious as well as to the virtuous...
...Hotel the night I was there. They talked of this and that, mainly of the local water problem, which was acute, and 'home,' which 'was Germany. Then a woman remarked, weren't they proud of the way their Führer was holding back the vicious Russian onslaught; but soon her face lit up-the spring would come and then. . . . She stopped abruptly. Someone had motioned that a stranger was present. Strangers round here were rare...
...weeks ago, public indignation was aroused against the Satevepost for printing Milton Mayer's vicious article, "The Case Against the Jew." Attacked on all sides, the Post was forced to run ads in the three big New York dailies, apologizing for the "misunderstanding" that the article was anti-Semitic. Many, however, in spite of the Post's Protestations of innocence, belive that the editors knew what they were doing all along, that this article was part of the Post's old line of defeatism and spreading of race hatred...
...Moorish ancestry, was born twelve miles from Vichy at Chaåteldon, where he now owns an old chateau (see cut, p. 29). His father was the innkeeper, butcher and one-man post office. As a boy, Pierre haggled with his father's customers, was known as a vicious bully...
...Will vicious black markets spring up? Will untold rackets-unrecorded cash transactions, special surcharges for prompt delivery, etc.-such as are already gaining headway, grow and flourish...