Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old, out of prison only 18 months since he was 15, not only teaches illiterates but laces his instruction with comments on the folly of crime. ¶A young man once on the FBI's most-wanted list, and described as vicious, depraved and hopeless, has at last settled down and is one of the most satisfactory students in the eighth grade...
...decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans have acted as louts and barbarians preying on a helpless, suffering people. In this false equation, miscarriages of justice such as the imprisonment of non-Nazis or the cavalier requisitioning of German homes are treated as the vicious equivalent of murdering 6,000,000 Jews...
With the freshman hockey team behind 2 to 1 and 36 seconds remaining in the game against Exeter Saturday, defenseman Elmer Walls drove a vicious slap shot into the upper corner of the Exeter goal, sending the contest into a sudden-death overtime period. Three minutes later, the Yardlings had won their fifth straight game, 3 to 2, on a goal by Ken Wood-worth...
Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor. Shakespeare's narrative recounts the harlotry of love and the homosexuality of friendship, shows war grotesquely fumbled and honor traduced. In the violence of its mood and the slackness of its method, in its surface disillusionment and its underlying disgust, in its fierce, fanged bite-yet its biting off more than it can chew-Troilus and Cressida resembles a little those harsh Huxleyan "sophisticated novels...
Specific "diseases of adaptation," according to Selye, include rheumatoid and gouty arthritis, several kidney disorders and some types of high blood pressure. Less well-defined but perhaps more clearly related to stress are emotional disturbances. There is also a two-way vicious cycle: besides "psychosomatic" illnesses in which a sick psyche causes physical changes in the organs, Selye emphasizes "somatopsychic" illnesses, arguing that nobody can be physically ill without as a result also suffering emotional upset...