Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This article is the most vicious and insidious attack on the Negro people that I have seen since I, as a boy in Mississippi, by chance found a copy of McCormick's Chicago Tribune...
Northerners must not allow the South to succeed in absolving the guilt of 75 years through "its vicious, dirty, lying campaign" of propaganda, Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told an informal audience last night in the Littauer Lounge...
...four rounds, it was the younger Basilio who first showed signs of wear. His strength was ebbing; in close, Robby tied him up with ease. When Basilio stood off and tried to box, stinging jabs thrust him off balance. Then a vicious uppercut landed flush on his left eye. Within seconds it swelled shut. Basilio was lost behind that ugly, blue-black eight ball for the rest of the fight...
Bursting with fury, Korean newspapers labeled the incident a "vicious lynching," demanded a status-of-forces agreement that would allow Korean courts to try U.S. servicemen. General Decker hastily expressed regret at the treatment given the boy, "even though he was caught in the act of stealing" (a fact most of the Korean newspapers failed to mention), and promised "appropriate action...
...were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions in knee-deep water 100 miles from Archangel, posters provided by British General Headquarters proclaimed that their enemies were Bolsheviks-"soldiers and sailors who, in the majority of cases are criminals . . . Their natural, vicious brutality enabled them to assume leadership...