Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keynote was set by Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, who snorted: "Some high-priced lobbying talent and some vicious propaganda have gone into . . . hampering and hamstringing . . . the Government's electric power projects." The N.R.E.C.A.'s President T. E. Craddock declared that the shortage of electric power had reached a state of emergency...
...pointless assault and battery was concerned, B.U. was by far the major offender. Flagrant violations of the rules caused Jack Carman and Al Key to lose teeth, the former from a vicious (and illegal) crosscheck and the latter in a scullion in which the puck was not even involved. As a result of their tactics, B.U. was able to reduce the varsity's six goal lead to but two scores in the final thirty minutes of the game...
...Republican National Committee marched into snowbound Omaha last week, bitter, bewildered and quarrelsome. They had come to find some constructive answers to the lessons of five consecutive presidential defeats. Instead, they plunged "angrily into a vicious, bare-knuckle denunciation of Candidate Tom Dewey and his hand-picked national chairman, Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., of Philadelphia...
Well now Clifford has come out of the West with a new play called "The Big Knife." With it, he takes some vicious slashes at the guts of his former paymasters. He says nothing new, but he has not lost his touch in saying it in a startling way. Every Odets line has the impact, and sometimes the serewiness, of a tabloid headline. Perhaps his characters aren't real. Perhaps they are. Clifford Odets is real. He is the star of the show...
...question of whether the work of an artist can be considered separately from his polities. That question has been answered rather consistently by free societies in the past. The western world has taken into its culture the works of many artists whose politics were at least as vicious as those of Gieseking--Richard Wagner and Ezra Pound, to name two. If Gieseking has not been allowed to play for American audiences for political reasons, then the logical absurdity reasons, then the logical absurdity would be to ban the work of Wagner and Pound and all the other artists who also...