Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exercise in geometry. For every shot, he argues, there is one proper return, one proper angle to aim for. "You don't play the person, you just play the board as if you were a machine. Tennis looks genteel," he adds, "but it's the meanest, most vicious game I know...
...ghosted speeches were "a pain in the neck," but many a newspaper, while tut-tutting, managed to slip in a needle at the Palace too. "There is some danger," said the Spectator, "of the monarchy leaning too heavily upon a single class." "In all the virtuous and vicious huffing and puffing," said the Economist, "the real point about the article has been lost. It is that its author is a sturdy monarchist...
...freezer, and performing delicate surgery to remove their venom sacs while they are in a half-frozen stupor. The venom from the sacs is pooled, then injected in small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere in the U.S. by closely related species). As with most Hymenoptera, the female of the species is the deadlier-the male has no sting...
Communist Russia, crowed Nasser, came to the rescue. And when Egypt then rejected the Eisenhower Doctrine, the U.S. instituted "a vicious policy of invasion from within" the Arab world, sought "to isolate Egypt," and the battle became clear and open. And for those Arab leaders and "deviators" (a word drawn from the Marxist lexicon) who had lined up with the U.S., there will never be any place "in any Arab solidarity...
...freedom of speech and the right to voice opinions." By week's end the storm had spread far beyond the borders of the campus. Said the conservative Beaumont Enterprise: "The practice of firing teachers who express opinions on pertinent questions of the day can become a vicious and monstrous thing in any state...