Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section of the Library fills him with a wonder that is more Dantesque-the propaganda section. It contains, he says, "probably more lies, half-truths and untruths" than any other similar room in the world. What deeply troubles Herbert Hoover, who knows in a personal way something of the vicious effects of lies, is the inability of propaganda-poisoned people any longer to know when they are being poisoned. He sees in the Library's propaganda section evidence on a vast scale of "the mind's total abdication from truth." If he is right, the Library may prove...
Murray sent hefty Richard Frankensteen, national director of U.A.W.'s aviation division, to Inglewood, where Frankensteen broadcast a warning to workers to go back to work or forfeit affiliation with the C.I.O. Said he: "The infamous agitation, the vicious maneuvering of the Communist Party is apparent...
Both Your Houses. For the last four weeks Nazi propaganda directed against the U.S. had appeared in increasing quantities in Argentine newspapers, on the radio, in the mail, through books and cartoons. The propaganda is an artful blending of subtle innuendo in high places and blatant, vicious attack in low places...
LONDON -- British defenders in Western Crete gave ground foot by foot in vicious combat today as hordes of German reinforcements arriving by air widened a break-through in the sector between Malemi and Canea, official sources said...
...Denver, Colorado Attorney General Gail Ireland ruled that before being condemned to death a vicious dog was entitled to trial by jury...