Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could only identify the insects as relatively harmless field crickets (Grylus assimilis), not half as ravenous as the grasshoppers that frequently devastate vast acres of crops. There are a few insecticides that might do some good, said the hesitant bug men. But chemists, they admitted, have concentrated on more vicious pests and have not yet bothered to develop cricket killers...
...Catholic Christian clergymen want to convert the pagan, why do they insist on invading countries that have been Catholic for centuries? And if they do enter such countries, why must they preach a vicious, and-Catholic brand of Christianity...
...London, the drunken sailors became "our boys." In a savage little cartoon, Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard revived memories of vicious Japs in World...
...clear-cut: a clear-cut example of how not to fight Communism. Wrote New York Times Radio & TV Editor Jack Gould: "Particularly disturbing is the company's refusal to discuss Mr. Wechsler's dismissal . . . Instead of curbing Communism, [the ban] is helping it. For under the vicious credo of 'controversially,' one of the most articulate voices speaking out against Communism has been silenced on a TV program...
...State Department blessings, and agreed on a broad policy to stabilize markets in the postwar world, the U.S. oilmen were worried. President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. attacked the agreement as a "blank check" to the Government that would involve the domestic oil industry in a "vicious cartel system...