Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good, wholesome farce. Even when a renegade American brandishes a broken whiskey bottle in Cooper's face and growls, "My father always said the bottle could ruin a man," an aura of good-natured jollity pervades the film. The cockles of the heart warm perceptibly when Lancaster's vicious cut-throats drag a group of innocent children into a building as hostages...
...Vicious Circle. In Warwick, Va., the city planning commission gave top priority to "how to improve the attendance of members of the commission," but failed to act for lack of a quorum...
...tableau of international deadlock will not stay frozen. The goal of Communism is world domination. Atomic stalemate cannot change that goal; it can merely force a switch in method. The era of strategic deadlock is less likely to see a peaceful world than a busily vicious one, boiling with limited wars. These will not necessarily be little wars. The only limitation is on the use of the ultimate strategic weapons against the Russian and American homelands. This development has been thoroughly previewed. When they were far behind in the collection of nuclear tools, when they knew...
There was another, perhaps more vicious and enduring, myth upon which McCarthy fed. Eisenhower's victory could not explode it. It was the myth of McCarthy's prowess. No man-especially no Senator (other than an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart")-dared stand against him. This myth, propagated mainly by anti-McCarthy "liberals," helped swell McCarthy's headlines, and, since head lines are a form of power, a gross exaggeration of power begot actual power...
Last week, as the Illinois trustees got set to try again, Henry's old friends in Detroit had a few words to say about the sort of charges made against him. Said Wayne's President Clarence Hilberry: "A vicious, unsubstantiated and anonymous attack." Added a Detroit board of com merce official: "There are whispers that the trustees at Illinois don't want a leader. They want somebody they can boss around. That's not for Henry...