Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With characteristic bad taste, TIME (Dec. 24) compounds and inflates all the vicious innuendo of defense counsel under the heading "Trial by Stage Whisper" [a report of the trial of Tallulah Bankhead's ex-maid, for kiting checks]. Said TIME: "The defense attorney had complained bitterly that there were 'two trials going on in this courtroom.' " Since TIME brazenly endorsed that fiction it should have added . . . that it was conducting a third trial, with me as its target...
...Cross. "The Jews and the Romans barbarously nailed Jesus to a cross. We are more refined, but far more vicious. We have made Him entirely respectable. Jesus was of the line of prophets, and the prophets have always been outrageously disrespectful of ancient customs, have always been daring of speech, have always rebelled against human authority-in a word, they have never been content to conduct themselves properly...
Last week, when news of the crime became public, Panechates, his vicious murder unavenged, was back in his usual box in an archway outside an exhibition of Chinese art. All that could be done was to change the sign above his bier and restore to him his rightful name...
...been locked up with other youngsters in a room infested with hungry rats that ate at the children's flesh. The sisters, all from the Holy Child orphanage, which for 42 years had given succor and shelter to abandoned Chinese children, were denounced by the Red judge as "vicious imperialists...
...fall of 1951, Feeney had become a permanent Sunday fixture on the common. His talks had changed completely from a positive assertion of his dogma to a vicious and negative attack on Jews, Protestants, and the Catholic hierarchy in Boston...