Word: vilely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 1,000 U.S. servicemen now held as prisoners-of-war in Asia, life is unpleasant at best. But durance has been considerably less vile for the eleven G.I.s held by Cambodia since their landing craft strayed out of Vietnamese waters July 17. Their host, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, seized on Cambodia's 15th anniversary celebrations in Phnompenh last week to prove himself a more than gracious jailer...
...Vile Weed. For "the rest of society," most O'Neill biographers have read "Father." But James O'Neill comes off rather well with Sheaffer. He thinks that the old man was justified when he declaimed to his sons in his best matinee voice: "Ingratitude, the vilest weed that grows." For one thing, he did not, as his sons charged, hire a quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with...
...curious commentary upon man's inhumanity to man whenever white Americans deliver that callous insult to the Negro's longstanding injury by questioning the validity of his chauvinistic or racist mode of retrieving his blackness. No doubt the black chauvinist mode of self-renewal is as mundane and vile as any other chauvinism at any period of human history. But it is no less an historically valid expression, for the history of white America's relationship to the Negro provided few meaningful alternatives...
...Australian Tonnage Committee, a group of 15 shipping companies involved in Europe-Australia trade, heard such a barefisted challenge. Dropping in at the committee's London office recently, N. I. ("Nicky") Zuev, vice president of the Soviet Union's ship-chartering agency Sovfracht, was in a vile mood. He complained that the committee, which is made up of shipping operators from eight countries, had unfairly treated the Russians, then warned: "Now we're going...
...stood around in small groups, talking. One long-haired youth got into a discussion with a middle-aged husband and his petite wife, who had been standing around watching the meeting. The woman kept insisting that she sympathized with the hippies, but why did they have to use such vile language, and why did they want to fight with the cops. The youth answered that they just wanted the right to sleep on the Common...