Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slumping growth, the nation's oil import bill, which is projected to total $61 billion this year, would leap to $96 billion in 1980. That in turn would keep the dollar's value dropping, while provoking yet more demands by oil states for compensating price increases. The vicious cycle would continue to drag the economies of the U.S. and the world down and down...
...really my style to play angry, but when it comes to Yale I have no trouble getting downright vicious," Casto said recently. "I consider the Yale game a season in itself and a victory this year in the Bowl would erase our losing record, leaving me with one sweet victory by which to remember my Harvard football career...
...bought a hose and that he planned to attach it to his car in his garage, but that his garage was being rebuilt," said Isaacs. "He then asked if he could use my garage." Kirchner later admitted that the revelations about him were true, though "negative and vicious...
...fighting for his political life. The nation ought to be watching the election to monitor a unique contemporary experiment in populism, not just to catch more of the mayor's antics. The press delights in portraying Kucinich as a sort of political punk-rocker: he's rude, he's vicious, he's noisy, he's politically outspoken, and he looks barely old enough to be the beau of Akron's hardnosed heart-throb, 16-year-old Rachel Sweet...
...Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children. Those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and intrinsically vicious...