Word: vile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Punishment: vile abuse...
Wolff insists that despite its vile moments, "it had been fun to be my father's son." The joy is not apparent in his depictions of Duke's sick maneuvers. Case in point: an adolescent Geoffrey dubs a well-endowed schoolgirl "pear-shaped." When Duke finds out, he locks his son alone with him in the bedroom, strips him and beats him senseless with his razor strop (a prized possession incidentally, one of Duke's "glittering things"). When the punishment is sufficiently administered, his father Duke picks up his lifeless son, hugs him and whispers, "Be good. Try at least...
Blacks have mistakenly followed the leadership of the United Nations, Dershowitz said. He called the United Nations "a vile place. The U.N. today is a major force of evil," he added...
...writer was equally eye-catching: a tall, pale, boyish figure whose trademark was a gleaming white suit. He looked like a collegian out of Held's Angels, or a swell in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. Raised in Richmond, Va., Wolfe spoke softly and courteously, exuding an air of the right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment...
Roldós avoided ruffling Ecuador's armed forces, proclaiming that he held them in "great respect." But he also decried the "vile assassination" of Abnón Calderón Muñoz, leader of the gadfly Radical Front Party, who was shot last fall in Roldós' home town of Quayaquil. Calderón's family has brought suit charging that ex-Interior Minister Bolivar Jarrin Cahueñas was involved in the killing...