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Word: vicious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tackles are 197-pound Chuck Hemminger, a reserve last season, and George Kline, a senior letterman. Kline weighs 201 pounds and is a vicious blocker. The guards are small, with Al Clark, a letterman, weighing only 178 pounds and his running mate, George Hawke, going 185. The center, 186-pound Al Hickok, is the Tigers' other two-way operator. He backs up the line on defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Princeton Boasts Power Laden Offense and Defense Squads | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...rest of Roman Spring is pretty predictable: Mrs. Stone gets herself cruelly humiliated by the vicious Paolo and, at the end, drops him for another beautiful youth who has attracted her by making obscene gestures. Along the sordid route of this story, Williams offers such gems of wisdom as, ". . . beauty was a world of its own whose anarchy had a sort of godly license," and such gems of prose as, "Because you are very young, said Mrs. Stone, and very foolish and very beautiful. And because I am not so very young any more and not so beautiful, but beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jam of the Gods | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Odets dialogue is terse and vicious. Individual speeches are at once stirring and realistic. But it is not the speeches that make the play. He has woven them into a powerful action which completely absorbs the spectator...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

...Academy possesses one of the most impressive backfield corps in the country and, since Blaik prefers to use his superior men on defense, Army's defensive line is perhaps without equal. The individuals who man this platoon are a savage vicious lot who delight in laying hands on opposing linemen...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Black Knight Platoons Storm Stadium Today | 10/21/1950 | See Source »

...against incest (punishable by death), so does Hollywood have an equally important taboo against "any reference to the biological nature of man or other animals." Violators are not killed, but are refused the Code's seal of approval, "a form of business suicide." Moviemakers continually revolve in a vicious circle with the Code office minutely censoring "dialogue for suggestions of sex while the studios continue to accent the sexiness of their stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Curious Native Customs | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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