Word: vile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mental Brutality? As the session drew to its close, Morris blew up with a bang. "Down here in Washington," he said, "you've created an atmosphere so vile that people have lost confidence in their Government . . . I don't think that any man with red blood in his veins could sit here and take the insinuations left by the diseased minds in this chamber...
...rabbits to test the smoking qualities of cigarettes, and never have I finished an article with such a feeling of revulsion and disgust. Men who would torture animals (under any pretext) are a filthy scum and a disgrace to the human race; and I have never read a more vile form of torture than that developed to prove the relative merits of rival brands of tobacco . . . If you, or any group, plan to come down on these stinkers like a ton of brick, and need funds, you can put me down...
...Most people calling here," Hall said in his Alabama drawl, "got a bad conscience, a family trouble, or are just plain lonely. Men running away from their wives, crooks, gamblers. The most distinguished and the most vile. When they ask what's my message for this morning, I know they're repeaters and I feel like the president of a sunshine factory. I wear hand-me-downs, and eat of the spirit, and I'm so happy I don't want to go to bed nights." One night last week, after a five-week illness...
...Boston, Attorney General Howard McGrath told newsmen: "Newspapers enjoying unlimited freedom from Government interference can be, have been and are, some of them, vile and dishonorable: beyond all understanding . . . [But] under this Administration there will be no implied, no disguised, no direct and no indirect censorship . . . even if the tiny group of malcontents who traduce your Government from day to day were to increase and intensify their output twenty fold...
Last December The Miracle was put on by Manhattan's Paris Theater as one of three shorts under the overall title, Ways of Love (TIME, Dec. 18). Cardinal Archbishop Spellman denounced it as not only a "vile and harmful picture," but also "a despicable affront to every Christian . . . a mockery of our faith." He demanded that the license for The Miracle's showing be revoked by the New York State board of regents. If the board did not have the necessary power, he implied that U.S. Roman Catholics would go all out to change the censorship laws. Promptly...