Word: vile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vile & Rue. As a sideline. Sammy began lending money to reporters, later went into it fulltime, despite the fact that borrowers were "always casting their vile and rue on me." His rate was usually 5% a week, but it multiplied when a newsman borrowed on the day before payday; he thought that the heavy demand at that time justified a higher return...
...have torn up a letter in which he pledged her a life income of ?200, and she has only soft words for him in her Memoirs. After 15 years, she wrote her friend Lord Byron: "Don't despise me; nothing Lord Ponsonby has dearly loved can be vile or destitute of merit...
...with loathing upon those despised traitors" (Marshal Bulganin). "Spies and provocateurs" (Foreign Minister Molotov). "The fascist Tito's clique is a gang of British-American hired spies and murderers ... a despicable band of traitors and betrayers of their motherland" (Nikita Khrushchev). "The workers have long since discerned the vile and repulsive snout of the Belgrade deserter, hireling, spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor." (Literary Gazette...
Political Philosophy: "Wild rape and terrorizing . . . unabashed trading away of blood" (Marshal Voroshilov). "Oppression and exploitation . . . adventurisms, leftist ravings. vile maneuvers . . ." (Cominform Journal...
...blood for the first time, heralding the tuberculosis that would kill him 20 years later. In letter after letter, he issued bulletins on "my phlebitis in the left leg," on palpitations of the heart ("Every minute my heart stops for several seconds and does not beat"), on hemorrhoids ("a vile, despicable malady"), and even recognized the psychosomatic nature of some of his ailments. ("My intestinal catarrh left me the moment I left Uncle's. Evidently the odor of sanctity has a weakening effect on my insides...