Word: vicious
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...Joyce took this all too seriously, writing his wife hours later that it might possibly be all over. Joyce's jealous friend had in fact fabricated the betrayal, but for the next few weeks Joyce sent out letter after tormented letter "crying for my poor unhappy love," mixed with vicious comments like, "In Dublin here the rumor here is circulated that I have taken the leavings of others...
...Vicious hitting by both squads resulted in many turnovers, but the key 'cough-up' move into second place in Ivy scoring, averaging 21.5 per game...
...always outright vicious. Sometimes he plays word games that totally baffle the eager young correspondents who want to know what the message of hissongsis or who the songs are about. He seems genuinely puzzled as to why anyone would be interested in his personal life, and he guards it jealously. "It was never my intention to become a big star," he says. "It happened, and there was nothing I could do about it. I tried to get rid of that burden for a long time. I eat and sleep, and you know, have the same problems anybody else does...
...Genoa, Italy, members of the Red Brigades, a revolutionary Marxist group, seized an official of a state-owned factory, Vincenzo Casabona, 47, shaved his head, chained his feet to a pole in a garbage dump, and released him six hours later after a vicious beating...
Obscenities do not have the same power among college students as they have in ordinary life. Constant use, frequently in playful and affectionate circumstances, have emasculated them of any dark, taboo properties they might once have had. Pauline Kael has observed that college students really cannot conceive of the vicious injury inflicted when they as demonstrators taunt policemen and National Guardsmen with the casual obscenities of the collegiate vocabulary. They do not realize that for most people these obscenities are still functional weapons...