Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doubts. The U.S., too, is having second thoughts about Egypt's ambitious dictator, but it is not yet prepared to write him off. It still regards him as an able, honest and dedicated leader of Egypt. It disapproves of Radio Cairo's vicious propaganda campaigns, preaching hatred and revolt to other Arab nations (TIME, March 26), but also hesitates to make common cause with discredited colonial positions, and to assume the ancient burden of hostility (the U.S. has earned enough Arab hostility on its own by its sponsorship of Israel...
...addition to marking up books, Haynes said that the most vicious practice was the actual cutting out of photographs and pages from a book, declaring that it was pure vandalism and should not occur at a place such as Harvard...
That record is the basis in fact for the vicious rumor campaign against Zeidler. Among the false charges...
Sharp Attack. Liberal, Tory and independent newspapers across the country attacked the measure as a threat to press freedom. The Liberal Winnipeg Free Press called it "a discriminatory tax ... on the movement of ideas." Toronto's Tory Telegram said it was a "vicious" tax that "should cause concern in every editor's office." The Liberal Victoria Times called it "a discriminatory and authoritarian measure," the Vancouver News-Herald saw it as "a stride toward censorship," and the London Free Press, taking note of a similar affair on the other side of the border (see below), pointed out that...
...situation turns in a vicious circle. The planners quit because the city does not pay them enough. The salary scale runs $500-1500 below that for comparable Massachusetts cities. The city does not pay the planners enough because it feels that the planners don't do anything, and the reason they don't 'do' anything is that the city has not implemented their suggestions...