Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious gang rapes like the one involving Claudia Caputi...
...most vicious match I've ever played in," junior Lou Marczuk said yesterday...
...visit), it might be argued that this was more than offset by the almost simultaneous arrest of Jewish Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, the 29-year-old computer expert who has been an unofficial spokesman for the human rights movement in the U.S.S.R. The officially controlled Soviet press continues to print vicious attacks on dissidents, U.S. diplomats and journalists. If anything, the shrillness of these attacks appears to have increased...
...whether he was Ho Tzu-chen's child was unclear). This little boy evidently had been sent to Moscow and later returned to Shanghai, where he was put in the care of a priest, a man with two wives who turned out to be vicious women. They beat the boy so mercilessly that his sense of balance was permanently impaired. How well Chiang Ch'ing remembered his little body rocking crazily left and right. Even years later he still swerved from side to side, often tripping...
...result is a vicious circle. Since Harvard does not offer a women's studies program, qualified professors are hesitant to come, particularly when other colleges offer growing and worthwhile programs...