Word: vicious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poor, the hopeful and the hopeless. With a mother whose civil service job provides just enough money to send him across town to school and out of the city during the summer, Steve must struggle to gain acceptance in the ghetto, an acceptance that comes only after a vicious blood-letting fight with a neighborhood gang leader. Success in the street leads to success in the bedroom as he is initiated into sex by a local whore as laurels for his victory...
...marriages are stifling, and thwart the individual's natural growth; but there are other marriages, healthy marriages, that allow both individuals their fulfillment. I am most upset that so perverse a belief should be attributed to me, since I have been married for 13 years. There is enough vicious, absurd anti-male and antimarriage propaganda in America today without Mrs. Duffy's deliberate distortion of my views...
...Russians seem determined to keep around is Valery Panov, 35, once a leading dancer with the Kirov Ballet. In March 1972, Panov applied for exit visas for himself and his wife Galena, 24, to emigrate to Israel. Reaction was vicious and immediate. Panov was dismissed from the Kirov, while Galena was demoted from soloist to the corps de ballet. Since then, Panov has been continually harassed. His phone has been cut off, he can receive no mail from abroad, and he has been roughed up by the secret police. Now confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last...
...told startled reporters to "continue to give me hell every time you think I'm wrong." That truce flag fluttered only briefly, and now hostilities between the Administration and the press are more intense than ever. Nixon's Oct. 26 outburst at TV's "outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting" was quickly echoed last week by his staff, in-laws and friends...
...sees as TV's "distorted reporting." Appearing on the Dick Cavett Show last week, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Peter Lisagor said: "We've been trying since that Friday night press conference to get a bill of particulars, specify what was distorted, what was hysterical, what was vicious. And about the only thing that we can come up with so far is that Walter Cronkite quoted Hanoi radio one time as saying the President was out of his senses...