Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pudge's days at Yale, he was a lean, powerful (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) youngster who made the team as a freshman after a vicious scrimmage initiation: the Yale captain deliberately rasped his canvas sleeves back and forth across Pudge's nose until it was raw and bleeding, ordered opposing linemen to step on his knuckles, kick him in the shins. Pudge passed the test, became a fleet-footed guard* on the Yale team of 1888 that scored 698 points against the likes of Penn, Rutgers and Princeton, and was never scored on itself...
...South Africa will not be denied association with the U.S. dollar, and on their own terms. We are dealing with a Commonwealth in modern dress." The aim, says Butler, "is to break outwards, to sell more, and thereby to import more-to enlarge the circle rather than contracting a vicious circle...
...Gerald L. K. smith. Yet Lattimore is at most a moderate liberal, as borne out by his address. He does not even support , as I believe a good many Harvard students do, the recognition of Red China as the de facto regime of that nation. Yet because of the vicious and totally false picture of his views presented by the American McCarthyism, a picture apparently accepted to some degree by the Crimeds, he is presented as a radical and unorthodox figure...
...Rules of the Game is an amusing tragedy of manners. Never rude or strained, the picture flays the social excesses of the French aristocracy, exposing lives of vapid insincerity and vicious lack of purpose. Director and co-scenarist Jean Renoir is too subtle to stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering...
...strange new father with the letters L-O-V-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and H-A-T-E on the left. Once the war of nerves is joined, Author Grubb piles horror on tension, chapter by chapter, till the Preacher meets an end as vicious as himself...