Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vicious CIRCLE (310 pp.)-Margaret Case Harriman, illustrated by Al Hirschfeld-Rlnehart...
...wean, however, there are almost no facilities for taking care of them. On New York's Rikers Island, youngsters have to endure the horrors of a sudden "cold turkey" cure or get none at all. Once released, many go right back to drugs again. And penalties for the vicious crime of dope-peddling are too lenient (maximum: ten years) to deter many from the hugely profitable trade...
...Ouden ordered ammunition given to the strangers. Their leader thanked him. The 40 men withdrew a few yards, loaded their weapons, then whirled and fired into the stunned Dutch. An enemy mortar barrage joined in, blasted the U.N. position. A vicious street fight broke out. When the action was over, Colonel den Ouden and many of his staff lay dead...
This week the Communists, who had been giving ground before Seoul and shifting strength to the east, launched a vicious 60,000-man assault on a 30-mile front in the central mountains of Korea. Outnumbered South Koreans, who were out in front with a U.S. division backing them up (see below), promptly collapsed. The Communists-Chinese and North Koreans -drove an eight-mile wedge in the allied line...
...published a treatise on parliamentary procedure which has been revised at intervals ever since. It includes a list of insulting words and phrases which the Speaker has ruled unsuitable for use in House of Commons debate. Among the banned expressions: insulting dog, behaving like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...