Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When vicious snows hit the northeastern U.S. last month, tiny Rhode Island was struck badly enough to be declared a disaster area. This meant that many of those who lost money were eligible for food stamps: $7.6 million worth. All told, 105,000 households-roughly one-third of the Rhode Island total-got authorization to use the stamps, and an estimated 90,000 actually...
...including City Councilwoman Cathy Donahue, are afraid that eventually Denver will be left with much of the bill: "It's simply too expensive." Mayor William McNichols admits that there is strain: "We've had sessions that would match whatever Muhammad Ali did at his best -hard and vicious." But, he adds, "if it weren't for Bonfils and Seawell, we would still be arguing about the merits of the center...
Kosygin then resorted to his more vicious side. Kosygin is aggressive and a bureaucrat. He is noted in the Soviet Union for having served for thirteen years in government posts under Stalin without being liquidated by Beria-the Stalin Minister of the Interior-or sent to Siberia, as was the fate of all those who worked under Stalin. Not one of them except Kosygin was spared-as Khrushchev told us when he visited Egypt...
...multitude returned again to see if He could subdue the vicious Tigers and Lions, but they destroyed His Bengel, of which there was said to be just one more (a real Classic). But He knew that His faith in His closest disciples, those who He brewed together and allowed to walk on the holy wood, would one day be rewarded...
...walking with close friends, but whose names I intended to find out at the end of our journey, when I arrived at Harvard Square. It is a place usually busy with vicious traffic to the left of you, to the right of you, in front of you and behind you--but today it was joyously empty except for the same sort of grinning happy folks and delirious children. Suddenly the landscape had been humanized...