Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the eruption of protest and the reaction to it mocked Nixon's still unfulfilled promise to lead the nation "forward together." Not only were there rending, sometimes bloody clashes between peace demonstrators and peace officers, but a scattering of vicious brawls set citizen against citizen as well...
...Prang and Due Lap. Elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and Saigon's 22nd Division are involved in the operation, which promises to be particularly arduous because wild terrain rules out anything but travel by foot. Like Bold Lancer, the exercise got off to a sputtering start; vicious ground fire pinned down the first troops to arrive, and an inexplicable shortage of helicopter fuel temporarily kept 1,000 men waiting for the jump-off in Viet Nam. After two days, the troops had combed only 1% of the base area...
Citing the death of the four Kent State students, he asked the audience to "remember how many times black people have stood before you and tried to make you understand how vicious the pigs...
...Vicious Slap...
...Sheppard, referring to the Faculty's refusal to endorse the strike's demands concerning employees, said that "The University has already put a vicious slap in the face of employees who have gone out on strike," and urged the group to "take action to enforce those demands...