Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Fischer's vicious diatribe against American wives [Aug. 8]: there are many thousands of working wives, complete with home, husband, children, in-laws, their assorted social and economic problems, etc., against the precious females of Fischer's imagination. The lives of these working amazons do not look like the picture he paints. Sure, she has a place to sleep and clothes to wear and food to eat, even a car of doubtful vintage to battle the rush hour traffic twice a day . . . But brother, she's earned them by the efforts of her own unpolished finger...
...made over in the image of Dale Carnegie. Sinclair Lewis took a caustic look at this kind of anthropomorphism in Elmer Gantry, his 1927 satirical novel about the ministry. Lewis enraged the righteous but he made few people apprehensive about the state of the clergy: his pen was too vicious, his view too obviously jaundiced...
...breathing control is one of the motor centers most often and severely affected. This has an especially bad effect on speech. "After all," asks Harrington, "how much can you say on half a breath?" Bad speech makes patients nervous and selfconscious, so they avoid social contacts, slip into a vicious circle of embarrassment and withdrawal...
...feel that the Supreme Court decision was a wise one. But we are offended by some people who try to tell us how to solve our problems-people who come from sections of the country where segregation is unlawful but exists in just as vicious a form as anywhere in the South...
Your accusation that Stanton's group has "deliberately caused the unemployment of 18,000 workers" achieves the result you desire in portraying the textile manufacturers as a vicious, irresponsible bunch. You might reflect that the workers themselves (or their union) are 50 percent to blame...