Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...
Wrote Low: "Under the pressure of the big-time operators, football [is] becoming more savage, vicious and dangerous each season . . . leading to a brutalization of players and spectators alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech...
...resolution also decried the current attacks against Acheson, terming them "vicious and . . . slanderous...
...Manhattan's Harlem prowl some of the nation's most vicious teen-age gangs, and neither police watchfulness nor the usual type of social work has done much good against them.* Three years ago, the privately financed Welfare Council of New York City started a simple experiment in infiltration. To four of the worst gangs in Central Harlem-the Jay Bees, the Gay Blades, the Royals and the Knights-it assigned four young social workers, three of them Negroes. By last week, the council was able to tell, in a 162-page report, what its social workers...
Protests crackled from coast to coast. A Washington Post reader denounced the "vicious" attempt to "blackmail parents into buying a product." The Washington Star editorially conceded that the ad "was in bad taste" and regretted its publication. Cried the Los Angeles Mirror's Columnist Hal Humphrey: "How neurotic...