Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find the range. They hurt no matter where they hit. In the eighth, Rocky was at his brawling best. He bulled Charles against the ropes, hooked his big left paw around the back of Charles's head to hold it in position, and whaled away with a vicious right uppercut to the Adam's apple. Charles never recovered...
Because they feel so good right after taking a goof ball and so rotten after it wears off, most non-medical users reach for another when the effect of one begins to pale. Though amphetamine is not technically an addicting drug, it is habit-forming. Neurotics have a vicious-circle routine: goof balls to wake them up and keep them going through the day, then barbiturates to still the jags and jitters and lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which...
...later press conference Stassen branded McCarthy's speech as false in "just about every paragraph," and charged: "It is one thing to have an honest difference of viewpoint and another thing to give false facts in order to reach a really vicious conclusion...
...does one day at a baseball game, he writes of the fans: "Most of them. I suppose, have mediocre jobs and live in drab houses and have little learning and no appreciation of art." When Senator O'Brien (an "imaginary" character who is responsible for a vicious climate called O'Brienism) goes after Whitehead on trumped-up charges of being a Soviet agent, a lot of recent imaginary history is tediously rewritten. Badgered by O'Brien, his job lost. Whitehead takes off for a Connecticut farm where he bravely exults to diary: "Farming and writing-that will...
Beauties of the Night is a Gallic treatment of Mr. Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Gerard's hero is a bit more purposive and coherent in his dreams, and the world into which he constantly reawakens is a bit more vicious, but the idea is the same. Phillipe plays a music teacher whose drams take him back into history. The dreams center about his success as a composer of operas, a soldier of fortune, and a wooer of beautiful women. One of these women is Gina Lollabrigia...