Word: vicious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vicious Virus...
...leave tomorrow. True, the real estate men have helped to create a broadened tax base and a lot of construction activity that will doubtless benefit the state's economy. But they have also trapped the county's towns of Stratton, Wilmington, Dover, Winhall and Guilford in a vicious cycle that might make a hardened Yankee farmer weep...
Unfortunately, neither side in the legalization dispute can produce conclusive arguments, for although much has been learned about marijuana in recent years much more is still unknown. Years of exaggerated and oversimplified speculation have created a vicious circle that still hampers the growth of real knowledge. Researchers Norman Zin-berg and Andrew Weil, who last year did the first truly scientific study of marijuana's effect on the human organism, maintain: "Administrators of scientific and government institutions feel
...typical freshman gains fifteen pounds in her first year of dorm life. Girls coming home after dates roam the kitchens looking for snacks. People eat ravenously at dinner as they discuss how fat they are getting and how bad the food is. By over-eating people repeat the vicious circle operating in all parts of dorm life: poor conditions cause strains which are temporarily relieved by aggravating the conditions...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam No. 40. Then our lynx eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Froud." (V.G.); "but whether this a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one might be droll enough...