Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.B.C. organized 18 months ago, attacked the accusation as a "vicious and malicious falsehood," and denounced the "smear" campaign which the A.B.C. has been conducting...
Wrote Machiavelli: "Taking everything into careful consideration, one will discover that an action which appears to be virtuous will lead to the ruin (of the prince) and another action which appears to be vicious will lead to his security and prosperity . . ." Louis HANEGRAEF Liège, Belgium...
...Digging. Pennsylvania's Republican Representative John P. Saylor thought the Harvey affair represented something more than a departmental slip. Before Congress he termed it "a vicious new scandal . . . perpetrated by high officials and politicians of the Administration." Since Harvey had been able to wangle a large power allotment from the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration before getting his loan approved, Saylor noted that Harvey had hired as his counsel C. Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions...
...second positive feature of this year's team is harder to see. It is most visible in the vicious Crimson tackling, in the three roughing penalties, in the way the backs keep driving after they have been...
...July Reader's Digest (circ. 15 million), he saw his duty and did it. As director of parochial schools of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., Westenberger banned the Digest from the 125 schools under his supervision. The offending article, said he, was "unpatriotic, unChristian, and vicious propaganda...