Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was charged last December with extorting a $25,000 contribution, West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., charged in turn that John A. Field III, the Federal prosecutor pressing the case, was conducting "a vicious political vendetta" in order "to feed his personal ambitions." Last week the Republican Governor stood vindicated after a jury in Charleston, W. Va., found him innocent. Said a tearful, defiant Moore: "An apology is due the citizens of this state...
...Frank W. Gay, the chief executive of Hughes' Summa Corp. and a devout Mormon, also happened to drop by Salt Lake City just before the will was found. A Mormon spokesman insisted that Connally met with churchmen on an unrelated matter, and Big John branded any connection "a vicious, malicious, irresponsible story." Gay was in town for a meeting of the University of Utah advisory council...
...Vicious and Violent. One of the obdurate truths of political life in the '70s is that most suburbs ringing the nation's decaying cities are adamantly against low-cost housing. They fear that such housing would bring an influx of the poor, including minorities, into their communities. The town of Hempstead, L.I. (pop. more than 800,000), for example, which adjoins New York City, has been denied $758,000 in federal aid because it did not propose an acceptable low-income housing program. Admits Francis Purcell, the town's presiding supervisor: "Most of the people...
...professional wrestling. Second-rate actors like Man Mountain Mike (a quarter ton of lard) and Baron Scicluna use these elements to create a theater of fake violence and feigned pain. The crowd falls for it (the hungering suspension of disbelief), and when the greatest hero (Bruno) meets the most vicious villain (Koloff) their dissembling of pain and terror raises the crowd to levels of cruelty and desperation you don't find in any sport. In sports, the violence is sublimated to the greater purpose of wining goals and scoring points--even in hockey the fighting is incidental. But professional wrestling...
...many liberals the preferred candidate is Hubert Humphrey. The marvelous irony of that is not lost on Humphrey. Last month he accepted an invitation to speak for New York Congressman Herman Badillo, who was one of his most vicious attackers a few years ago. In 1968, Joe Rauh, who now describes Humphrey as a first-teamer, was part of the crowd outside the Chicago convention hall screaming: "Dump the Hump." Liberals have forgiven Humphrey, mostly because they have...