Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During my almost seven years of tenure as Ambassador of Sweden, no article of such a vicious nature regarding my country has ever appeared in any responsible American newspaper or magazine ... It is perhaps true that the number of extramarital births are higher in Sweden than in the U.S.-although the perfected Swedish statistics may have something to do with the relatively high percentage. This percentage is not higher than in a number of other Western countries...
...vicious slander campaign threatened the existence of the WAAC, reaching its climax when New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell wrote (falsely) that WAACs were being issued contraceptives because "Mrs. Roosevelt wants all the young ladies to have the same overseas rights as their brothers and fathers...
...40th round Eddie stopped the fight. Nelson was a helpless hulk, his face a mess of bleeding flesh. But the winner had taken more of a licking than anyone realized. In two short years Ad Wolgast fought 21 times, finally lost his title to Willie Ritchie in another vicious slugfest. From then on he was lost in a punch-drunk dream of a comeback. He continued to train, and he continued to fight. He frittered away the fortune that he had won with his fists. In 1917 a Milwaukee court declared him legally incompetent. For a few years Wolgast...
...passenger traffic and income fell, many hard-pressed companies boosted fares, cut services, or did both. They could hardly have done more to lose passengers. Without exception, fare increases turned passengers away, and started a vicious circle. As more bus riders turned to private cars, city traffic jammed up tighter, buses moved more slowly. Slower speeds forced companies to buy more equipment and hire extra drivers to meet schedules; thus the transit companies them selves helped to make traffic still worse. (A Chicago cable car in the 1890s crossed the Loop only 50 seconds slower than...
...vicious newspaper articles were a symptom of the worsening relations, now approaching a postwar low, between U.S. companies and the Japanese government. Though U.S. industry has poured more than $229 million into Japan since the war, some 70 applications for $34 million in new investments are gathering dust in the files of Japan's powerful Foreign In vestment Council. Fortnight ago, FOAdministrator Harold Stassen announced a plan to guarantee future U.S. investments in Japan. Four companies applied for such guarantee, but none was approved by Japan, and none is likely to be. Reason: the government regards...