Word: vilely
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...jobs or be transferred to lower-paying positions. They told of seeing an orange cloud surrounding a building following an accident; of routine radioactive material spills where everyone would "bail" from a building and then have to return to mop things up. They told of 55-gallon drums of vile materials exploding and an individual who single-handedly entered a room wearing just a face mask to turn off a valve where radioactive material was spewing forth, suffering burns on both of his arms...
...there was Mauer, in Game 5 of Golden State's stunning first round series upset over the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks, injecting himself into the action by ejecting Golden State forward Stephen Jackson with nine seconds left for that vile, repugnant offense - sarcastic clapping. Jackson, admittedly, is no choir boy: he received a 30-game suspension for his role in the notorious Pistons-Pacers brawl of '04. But the ejection was just silly, and it's only the latest instance of hot-headed NBA officials stealing the limelight by flaunting their power on the court...
...with Simmons is that he had claimed to oppose the censorship he’s now proposing. Ten days before requesting the deletion of the three reprehensible words, Simmons defended hip hop artists from critics who claimed that what they say about women in their songs is just as vile as what Don Imus said about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. “Sometimes their observations or the way in which they choose to express their art may be uncomfortable for some to hear,” he said of rappers...
...Vatican wasn?t laughing, and on Tuesday its official newspaper L?Osservatore Romano went further, lashing out at the remarks as a ?vile attack? and ?terrorism.? "It's terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love,? the paper wrote...
Imus' attack on the Scarlet Knights was was just as vile as his insult directed years ago at distinguished PBS broadcaster Gwen Ifill. When the New York Times assigned Ifill to cover the Clinton presidency, Imus remarked, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." As far as Imus is concerned, a black woman like Ifill should be emptying the President's trash cans, not interviewing him. That casual slander reminded me of an e-mail I once received from a reader who asserted his view of a black woman's proper place...