Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought Harry and Dennis back to Harlem, they moved into a white neighborhood, where Harry passed for a time as a "Frenchy" from Martinique. But he could not keep it up: "Once I got really hot and spilled the beans." After that, the fights were more frequent and more vicious than ever. Belafonte still bears a few of the scars of street combat, but, he says, "the emotional scars were worse. I was good at sports, and when they chose up sides they always chose me first. I was accepted then, but it never carried over. I would be sitting...
...Perpend," said Samuel F. B. Ferdly. He burrowed into the cushions of the couch, and emerged seconds later with fifty cents, half of a 3-by-5 card, nine Green Stamps, last week's New Yorker, and a hairpin. "I have discovered a new vicious cycle, a perfect closed circle of degeneration. About three glasses after I had become fully convinced of the nutritive powers of gin and tonic--a process that in itself took quite a little while--I suddenly found a cosmic abyss open beneath my feet. I had this very, very full glass...
...Then Government bonds, which had been providing speculators with fat profits as they rose while interest rates fell (TIME. Aug. 18), went into a slump when interest rates began to climb again with the economic recovery. As bond prices slid, their yields rose. Secretary Anderson found himself in a vicious circle; to sell his securities he had to keep edging up the interest rate. Yet every time he floated a new issue at a higher rate, prices of older issues edged down, making it necessary to put a higher rate on his next offering...
...veritable mine of visceral sensation: the case of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, as told in a story by Donald Taylor. In the last century, it seems, the teachers of anatomy in Edinburgh were forced to deal with "resurrectionists" for the dissection subjects they needed. Two of these "vicious human vermin of the gutters of the city" find it more convenient to murder than to dig up their stock in trade ready-killed, and familiar faces begin to show up on the dissecting tables, faces that had been seen alive, laughing and talking, a few hours previously...
Jimmy Velluch led the scoring for the PBH "Friars" as he poked 8 goals by the inept grad goalie, Jamie Hufton. The only dispute in the game came in the second period, after a particularly vicious check from one of the Business School defensemen, when one of the PBH lads produced a switch-knife, and made threatening gestures toward his opponent. Referee Richie Rubenstein quickly calmed the situation and the game was played without further incident...