Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge merchants have slashed prices of phonograph records up to 40 percent as the result of a vicious price war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records...
...Journal-Bulletin, Mr. Collins and Mr. Bagdikian deserve an accolade for giving wide publicity to this vicious organization. It is insidious because part of the programs are nonpartisan and lead one to believe that all its programs are such...
...President's most controversial proposal is that the Government should hold secret polls of employees on whether they want to strike. Since most unions already conduct such polls on their own, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther was affronted. He labeled the plan "the most vicious strikebreaking weapon ever devised." Actually most labor specialists agree that the plan would be costly, unwieldy and no help to collective bargaining. And it would get the Government deeper into disputes, instead of getting it out, which is Ike's avowed policy...
Blons, a quiet village in Austria's picturesque Great Walser Valley, was only one of many corners of Europe caught in the backlash of a deceptively mild winter that had suddenly turned vicious. Cross-Channel shipping was brought to a dead stop for two days as winds, roaring in from the Atlantic, whipped the seas into a fury. Far to the south in Italy, gondolas lay at their moorings in Venice under coverlets of snow. Even in Algeria, the snowplows were busy on the streets of Constantine...
...script makes a couple of pious passes at pointing a moral; it says that the community-the greedy tavernkeeper, a weak cop, some hotheaded and vicious citizens-is as much to blame for what happens as the young delinquents are, but it is hard to believe in such talk...