Word: vilely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dismissing Hanoi's accusations as "vile slanders and scurrilous charges," Peking answered that Viet Nam had "ostracized, persecuted and expelled Chinese residents on a mass scale." To prove that charge, government officials organized press conferences for foreign newsmen in border areas where Hoa refugees were living in improvised camps. Meanwhile, China's official propaganda machine ground out endless grim tales. An old woman from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) recounted how all her possessions had been seized. "Not even her wardrobe, beds, stools, bowls and saucers were spared," according to one report. She was also threatened with resettlement...
...opinion, District Judge Fred W. Kaess called affirmative action a "vile misnomer" and "the antithesis of equal opportunity" if it simply meant proportionate job quotas without regard to past discrimination. He ruled there was no proof that police promotions and hiring had been discriminatory, and took issue with claims that the percentage of Detroit police employees who were black (17%) was less than the 44% proportion of blacks in the city's population. Applicants for police jobs, the judge pointed out, were drawn from a three-county labor market in which 18.7% of the eligible workers were black...
...their show became more elaborate and carefully thought out, complete with flexing and preening, with strutting and scowling, with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry imitations. And their costumes came much closer to authentic 50's garb, even using D-Y Lubricating Cream to grease their hair back--"a vile substance used only by gynecologists and homosexuals," and the greasiest stuff they could find...
...Pistols' unwonted decorum may have been imposed by the presence out front of the Atlanta vice squad. After all, the Pistols had caused a scandal on British TV a year ago with their vile language. They had been fired by two record companies, locked out by most of Britain's major rock clubs and concert halls, reviled for a song calling the Queen a moron during the Silver Jubilee celebration and castigated nearly everywhere for their world-class grossness. Just two weeks ago, in fact, their entry into the U.S. had been temporarily denied-and four concerts canceled...
...rest are sadists, masochists, sneaks, morons, arrested adolescents, vile companions for a two-hour journey. Aldrich has shot them all in a harsh, flat light that matches his essentially pornographic spirit, and he has directed without nu ance, jerking the movie to fitful life with occasional shocks - a beating here, a mur der there, over in the corner some sick...