Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathizers, as well as some 200 suspect politicians and civil servants. Who could be sure of anyone, any more? Seventy officers of the King's army are in jail, including Hussein's former close companion, Colonel Rahdi Abdullah. Anyone caught listening to Radio Cairo or to the vicious noise of the clandestine "Jordan People's Radio" was hustled off to prison...
...sources, Bartholomew made plain, was U.S. Ambassador Henry J. Taylor, onetime radio commentator, who was quoted: "The most vicious bullet the Reds have in the cold war is the dope traffic." Swiss newspapers angrily demanded the ambassador's recall, and told their readers that he was the same Taylor "who once wrote sensational stories about flying saucers." Taylor and Bartholomew issued conflicting versions of their interview; the Swiss government summoned Taylor to tell him that they were "not enchanted," and the U.S. State Department apologized to the Swiss for the "embarrassment caused...
...throughout the U.S., mostly involving the old, the infirm, the widowed, or those who had simply reached the end of the line. Another soft touch is the blind: they cannot read the contracts. Said Donald McClure, California's assistant real-estate commissioner: "This is one of the most vicious rackets we've ever had to deal with...
...Adams was our Governor, and he is a man of great honesty and integrity. The reputation of this John Fox leaves one much in doubt. Only political jealousy of Mr. Adams high ethics could allow such vicious accusations to be used against...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...