Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trace this monolithic concentration on usage is to pursue a vicious circle . . . The literate public seems to get it from the English teachers, and the teachers get it from the public . . . A phony standardization of usage appears in print, the work of editors unconscious of the ultimate meaning of what they...
...daughter) in payment. The zamindars gradually became the landholders, the peasants mere sharecroppers. "The most creditable products of zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, and as drunken as a Surtees squire...
...comparable newspaper advertising in New Orleans. To make sure the order is carried out, the TP, unless it can get a reversal on appeal, must submit its new rate card to the court for approval before issuing it to advertisers. Snapped Editor & Publisher: "The decree ... is a vicious ruling destructive of any semblance of freedom of action or free enterprise in the newspaper business . . . Government control is reaching further & further into the newspaper business...
...College's rather confused athletic policy in April, 1935. From that point on, he stated, athletics would "be placed on the same basis as the other activities of the University which are largely supported by endowment ... We wish to get away as soon as possible from the vicious connection between football gate receipts and expenditures for the athletic program." At the --same time he announced that, for the sake of economy, seven, minor sports would have to be cut off gradually from University funds and go on a pay-to-play basis. Less than a year later, however, the H.A.A...
...first, Eisenhower headquarters kept a lofty silence. Then, as the wind began to scream outside, an Ike lieutenant blasted back. Said he: "The vicious and false charges . . . show the same desperation and lack of good morals as the Texas convention scandal . . . The Eisenhower national headquarters is not paying any delegate expenses. Many delegates have expressed a desire to meet with General Eisenhower, and they have been invited to meet with him. In accordance with usual custom, their expenses will be paid either by themselves or by. local committees, clubs or individuals...