Word: vile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tommy Hughes, an 18-year-old machine operator, complains that the Japanese "have vile tempers. As soon as something goes wrong, no matter how small, they act like little kids." But John Davies, 45, who represents the employees on the plant's Japanese-style "works committee," renders the final verdict: "We asked to finish at 4:30 p.m. instead of 5 on Friday; they gave us that. We asked for a Christmas holiday; they gave us that. We asked for a sickness scheme, and they gave us that too. These Japanese seem to understand us. I wouldn...
...young Churchill duly records the Crown's triumph in the Sudan over "these savages with their vile customs and brutal ideas." But in South Africa, he praises "the stubborn, unpretentious valour of the Boer." British set backs make him fudge, apologize, sermonize. He is capable of humor, though. "Islam," he writes, "does indeed teach man how to die, [but] dying is a trick very few people have been unable to pick...
...MAKES hasty pudding anymore. We can thank the boys over at 12 Holyoke St. for that, if nothing else. A vile combination of corn meal, Lutmeg, giner, eggs, water, milk, molasses and butter, the stuff used to be whipped up in the late 1700s by Harvard undergraduates to supplement the rather gross fare of the pre-Central Kitchen era. In those days, the story goes, you might catch a glimpse some night of students bearing a steaming kettle of this poison on a pole to wherever the Hasty Pudding Club was assembled for the evening. Everybody would then fill themselves...
...books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves at twilight, the hunter's peculiar alertness to sound and smell, the rock-bottom scrubbiness of Indian life, the raw fragrance of tequila and the vile, fibrous taste of peyote, the dust in the car and the loft of a crow's flight. It is a superbly concrete setting, dense with animistic meaning. This is just as well, in view of the utter weirdness of the events that happen...
Crimson crew co-captain Bill Mahoney stalked triumphantly through London's Heathrow Airport of December 21 st, carrying the Vile Festival Regatta Trophy back to Cambridge for the second year...