Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vicious Traps. A favorite I.R.A. tactic is to put gelignite into a milk churn, then stand it by the roadside among dozens of other containers that farmers put out at night to be collected by the dairies. When an army patrol passes by, the terrorists detonate the churn by remote control. Other I.R.A. traps are just as viciously clever. A month ago, two Ulster policemen were lured by a false report into an isolated area, where they were ambushed and killed...
Things are open and exposed, somehow, and with no ivy or bricked streets you feel more vulnerable, look in the rear-view mirror for the old Attica boys tooling down the highway with the trusty thirty-odd-six strapped to the dashboard. Vicious radar traps; Rocky's drug laws, which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office...
...Crimson must face its most serious challenges right at the top of the schedule. After Springfield, Harvard goes up against Boston University, Hofstra, Alabama, and Georgia Tech, all grappling powers. Strangely enough, the overall schedule is easier than last year, since such vicious foes as Navy and Cal Poly have been dropped...
...independence, Angola last week was sinking farther and farther into a vicious civil war involving three independence movements, each of which claims to represent the people of this new non-nation. The three...
...weak that, in the words of OECD Secretary-General Emile van Lennep, "it would not gather momentum and might peter out." One reason: the recession has pushed the volume of world trade 10% below the 1974 level, the first decline since World War II. The drop has a vicious-circle effect: as each country's economy sags, imports are reduced and the consequent fall-off in world trade then cuts each nation's exports, deepening the slide...