Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this were not bad enough, the Senator's plot will deal a vicious blow to the chipmunks, who are already struggling to the limits of their tiny, furry little paws against snakes, hawks, foxes, and, worst of all, weasels. The cunning craft of the Senator stands stark before us when we recall that he posed, but a few short months ago, as the friend of the White House squirrels who used to frolic carefree before the lawn became the thirteenth green...
...interval between his premierships, nothing much had changed for the better in the nine-year-old nation which the serene and inscrutable U Nu has headed in fact, if not in name, all along. Screaming black crows still challenge packs of vicious dogs for riparian rights to the uncollected garbage strewn in Rangoon's streets. Ragged human beings fight each other for the trickle of water left after rebels destroyed the city's chief water main for the 18th time in nine years. Corruption still runs rampant in the ranks of U Nu's own governing party...
Harold Morgan and Butch Walls (whose vicious slap-shot has made him one of the team's top scorers) start on defense, backed up by Mel Hodder and Bob Crosby. John Page will guard the Crimson nets...
...Champion Carmen Basilio nine bruising rounds to win back his title from Johnny Saxton last September in Syracuse. He needed fewer than two rounds when Johnny tried a comeback in Cleveland last week. Basilio shot out of his corner at the opening bell, chopped at his challenger with a vicious, two-fisted attack that sent ringsiders' memories back to the second Louis-Schmeling fight of 1938. By the end of the first round, Saxton was on his heels. Midway in the second, a wrist-deep right to the midsection made him drop his guard; a left hook landed...
Maketh Not Summer. In Billings, Mont., acquitting Mrs. Antonia Romero on a charge of harboring a vicious dog after testimony from Mailman Theodore Foos that her pooch had nibbled his thigh, Judge Otis Packwood observed: "This is another case of every dog being entitled to one bite...