Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detectives are certain of at least 30 jobs the gang pulled, with a haul that exceeded $3,000,000. Indeed, the outfit's sleek style is what drew the attention of police investigating the Percy murder. Moreover, the gang was known to have two members-Hohimer and Malchow-vicious enough to have killed Valerie Percy...
...second prevailing Watergate myth is that Republican dirty tricks determined the Democratic nomination. As one who was closely associated with the Muskie campaign until the Senator's withdrawal from the primaries, I am convinced that the reasons for his failure were not Donald Segretti's vicious yet maladroit acts of sabotage, but our own mistakes. Senator Muskie was slipping in the New Hampshire polls before he cried on the steps of the Union Leader. The Muskie campaign was out-organized in Wisconsin and over-extended in Florida. The Senator did not take or communicate clear issue positions; he seemed...
...Crimes appear more vicious this year," Walsh said. "More criminals than ever before seem to be carrying knives and guns...
Nobody knows which two-eyed actor Cohn finally hired, but in the next two years one-eyed Falk won two Oscar nominations (for his portrayals of the vicious killer Abe Reles in Murder, Inc. and the Brooklyn hood in Pocketful of Miracles). His career then settled into a series of forgettable Hollywood films (The Great Race, Castle Keep, Luv) and a sprinkling of Italian epics. A TV series in 1965, The Trials of O'Brien (in which he played a slobbish lawyer similar to Columbo), folded after one season...
Cavemen's Trophies. In the second long scene (the play is a lengthy, un interrupted triptych), the frustrated boys get spiky-tempered, vicious and ugly. They thwack the girls unmercifully with a beach ball and shove them sprawling into the sand. One of the boys delivers a monologue on what he once found in a girls' John, which for sheer nauseated revulsion at woman as a menstruating animal is in direct descent from the diatribes of the early Christian fathers. Bruised and crying, the girls are lugged offstage like cavemen's trophies...