Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romano was the game's individual star leading a vicious offensive in the opening minutes. His 8 points in the initial 12 minutes gave the Crimson hoopmen a 12-4 lead which Yale slowly worked up to 14-14 deadlock. Captain Johnny Cobb of the Elis paced the victors as they kept up a next-and-neck battle until the half whistle...
...when the French aristocrats began drinking absinthe, and the "lower classes," with their vulgar ideas, began to dominate the art world. Says he: "It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility." At his pet abomination, WPA art, he snorts: "The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over the country, especially in schools where the nation's children are brought...
...power disgraced when half its battleship force was crippled at anchor in Taranto harbor, its armies now definitely stalemated in Egypt, its Greek offensive in reverse, Italy showed herself in her true aspect-Germany's supply-starved, dangerously inept southern flank. Crippled, Italy invited even more vicious blows from the British, and the British could be expected to deliver them full measure...
LONDON, Wednesday--Bombs dropped on a midlands town in a short but vicious raid last night caused some casualties and considerable damage while a lively flurry of activity over London petered out and the all-clear signal was sounded before midnight...
Nevertheless, the soccer eleven will work under one serious handicap, for halfback Bill Edgar will have to remain on the sidelines. Edgar has been a mainstay in the rear wall for three years, but in the vicious Springfield tilt last week he suffered a serious ankle injury that may keep him out of the Yale game also...