Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Chavez, said Father McGinley, had been guilty of slander, hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious offense against Christian charity." Replied Chavez: "I'll depend on my Creator's judgment on that...
Former County Assessor George Clark, Binaggio's political ally, had carried on a tax-fixing racket, said the grand jury, which described it as "the most sordid and vicious situation existing in Jackson County." Tens of thousands of dollars were extorted by threatening to jack up the taxes of legitimate businessmen, or jacking them up and offering to lower them for a fee. "One arrogant racketeer, feeling that a prominent businessman had not been polite to him, had the businessman's real-estate assessment tripled." When the businessman apologized and let the racketeer open a charge account...
While it is not the responsibility of the Harvard Student Council or the Lowell House Committee to justify itself for every vicious, erroneous letter which the "Harvard" CRIMSON finds itself obliged to publish, the extreme to which George L. Wronn '50 carries malicious untruth deserves some comment. It has rightly been said that if untruth is grass enough it will often be believed...
...figures by irresponsible individuals in Washington. It must be quite apparent to the CRIMSON that it has become party, innocently or otherwise, to the mud-slinging attack instigated by thoughtless members of the community; a shibboleth joyously taken up by other individuals whose only contribution to Harvard is constant, vicious, destructive criticism of the worst kind. If Wrenn is at all interested in the constructive work of the Council we refer him to page one, column three of the CRIMSON in which his letter appears. There are members who have opposed measures currently before the Council as vehemently...
Despite obvious differences, the three had some significant qualities in common. All formed their political consciousness in the years after World War I, when a generation was assaulted by the century's most vicious fallacy, i.e., that Communism was kin to progress. All were affected by the fallacy in varying ways, and all, being gifted with brilliant intellects, did a great deal to spread its paralyzing poison through the West's thinking...