Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designing drafters, charged he, had "hidden the fact that a Reconstruction Era statute could be invoked under the bill to provide the armed might of the U.S. for enforcement of the bill's provisions. This bayonet force is only a sample of the kind of vicious stuff of which this bill is made." Who were the designing drafters? Rasped Byrd: "I strongly suspect that the modern Thaddeus Stevens* now cloaked in the robes of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme...
Most delegates favored a Salk-type (killed-virus) vaccine, but there was still some argument as to how best to make it safe. The U.S. uses the Mahoney strain, which is as safe as any other if actually killed, but is a vicious cause of paralysis if live virus accidentally gets through. Britain avoids Mahoney like the plague, uses a strain that causes less paralysis even if live particles get through. So does Europe generally...
...very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion. A guttural gurgle meant contentment, and a soft cough meant that he was going to get vicious. When he tried to bite, Rosemarie once knocked him clear across the room, but Knorke did not hold this against...
Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
...Eagle in 1935 has the Supreme Court been the center of such general commotion in newspapers (see PRESS) and in the bar. The New York Times trotted out the kind of headlines usually reserved for war or disaster. Cried a Chicago lawyer: "This court is unanalytical; it's vicious, it's stupid, it's illiterate, it's subjective." Retorted a California judge: "The decisions are sound and timely. The trials of Communists here are comparable only to the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary. Neither should have taken place...