Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earsplitting Indictment. Tiger, in China's current Communist jargon, means corrupt capitalist. But last week, as Red China's tiger hunt (TIME, March 17) screamed into new heights of shrill persecution, the quarry seemed less like vicious beasts of the jungle than treed and terrified house-cats. Chinese Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen...
...notion that a cross-eyed child "will grow out of it" is a "vicious bit of misinformation," declared Ophthalmologist Richard G. Scobee of St. Louis. Besides creating difficulties in learning, the child's handicap sets him apart from playmates and often leaves a deep emotional scar. Dr. Scobee's advice: have it treated promptly, even if surgery is needed...
...Vicious Circle. In St. Louis, bus and streetcar operators complained to their union that morning transit service is so inefficient that they cannot get to work on time...
Defense work was particularly sharp and checks vicious: Mrkonich played his usual rough and effective game and George Bueller, returning after a prolonged injury, showed that the layoff had not hindered...
Bond also denied a statement attributed to him that "it never entered my mind that such a thing could happen at Harvard. I know now that it was no more than a stupid, vicious prank. It wasn't intended actually to scare us--just to remind...