Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-semitic feelings prompted the vicious, belt-buckle beating of a 14-year-old boy by a group of Newton teen-agers last Saturday, Stanley P. Burg, '54 confirmed last night...
...less than an hour. In a House that is a stronghold of Young Republicanism, Miles especially enjoys political jousts. Waving his cigar and quoting profusely from Aquinas, he kept the Republicans at bay all through the election campaign. Miles is particularly loquacious about what he feels has been a vicious campaign of debasement aimed at Harry Truman, whom he considers the greatest man in public life today...
...only a few years ago, in fact, that the Republicans made Rule 22 even more vicious. When the late Arthur Vandenberg was president pro tem of the Senate, an occasion arose when it seemed possible that cloture could be invoked, according to the then prevalent interpretation that two-thirds of the Senators could invoke it. Vandenberg, who was enjoying quite a reputation as a liberal in those post-war days, decided that the rule required the votes of two-thirds of the whole Senate...
...Edgar Hoover says: "The American Communist Party is just as vicious as it ever was." The party will probably not revive as an organization unless and until some major national setback or division causes another great wave of doubt to weaken America's faith in itself and in its way of living. But the party still can, through its fronts and dupes, sow doubt, in smaller but dangerous doses, about U.S. policies and principles. The question today is no longer whether to fight Communism-Americans have made up their minds about that-but how to fight it. The best...
However, it did discuss the Yale weekend mix-up in the Inter-House Dance Committee. At that time, Adams, Dunster, Kirkland, and Leverett "fought for patrons in a vicious price...