Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly vicious assassination, presumably perpetrated by Naxalites, occurred last week. Dr. Gopal Sen, 58-year-old vice chancellor of Calcutta's Jadavpur University, a center of Naxalite unrest, was pounced upon by a group of young men as he took his evening walk, bludgeoned with steel bars and stabbed four times. He was scheduled to have retired from his university post the following...
...again asserted their shrewd political sophistication at the polls [Nov. 16] than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...
...attacks are clearly part of a vicious strategy designed to force the Vietnamese to accept a permanent American presence of more than 200,000 troops in their country. The Administration has repeatedly refused to commit itself to the principle of total withdrawal because it intends to maintain the massive U. S. military bases in Vietnam permanently in order to consolidate its control of Southeast Asia...
...home, weary but exhilarated from his vicarious participation in "the game." And then, in the blah hours of the early morning, he will lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend to throw two touchdown passes for the Oakland Raiders . . . Champ Clark
...conferred "strong powers, and I find them as distasteful as I am sure you do." But he pleaded for understanding. "I appeal to all Canadians not to become so obsessed by what the government has done today in response to terrorism that they forget the opening play in this vicious game...