Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your article in the May 25 issue regarding Galveston should have been captioned "V for Vicious" instead of "V for Vice." By stating that Galveston is having a wide-open bonanza in gambling and prostitution and that Galveston is the shame of Texas you are not reporting the facts. Also, you commit a gross injustice against our city by spreading such rot all over creation. There are plenty of cities in Texas and in the nation that make Galveston look like Orphan Annie's doll's house...
...Duvalier, who has been running the country in one-man style, will be out of action for weeks, and his political enemies are using his illness in their war of nerves. The most effective method is a vicious appeal to voodoo believers, who are convinced that Duvalier is powerful because of ouangas that he planted about Port-au-Prince. As every practitioner of voodoo knows, the surest way to deprive a charm of its power is to apply human excrement. Last week the President's enemies went after what was supposed to be one of his strongest ouangas...
...Vassar girl. I never went to school a day in my life. I was raised, if you wish to call it that, in vaudeville, going from town to town, playing with musicians, acrobats, dancers, even freaks. Some were nice, some tender, some vicious. Many were genuinely bigtime, and you knew it the moment you were with them. Others were simply small-time human beings-petty, meager-minded, whiny, changing from week to week as we traveled from town to town...
...methods of its enforcement that have convinced Murtagh, charged with the administration of the law, that drug addiction is less of a legal than a social and medical problem. Murtagh is outraged because bull-necked Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger dismisses the addict as "an immoral, vicious social leper." As the law works, Murtagh points out, multimillionaire underworld masterminds are virtually never caught (Genovese is a rare exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse"). A few "pushers" (the smallest of small-fry peddlers...
...vicious circle," says Richard Shipman, throwing up his hands. "The farmers have no money, and to get a loan, the Government requires them to sow less-land. If they sow less land, there is nothing to sell! The only winners are the large plunderers...