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Word: vileness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schoale" 's appointed overseers bought the farmhouse, surrounded it with a six-foot fence, planted 30 apple trees and turned over the whole establishment to its first master and sole teacher, Nathaniel Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled into court, fined and fired. Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Schoale and How It Grew | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Vile Kyle sports a scraggly beard, guzzles beer and rides a motorcycle. Doug Plug looks so much like a fire hydrant that dogs eye him affectionately. These disgusting creatures, along with other urchins like Ghastly Ashley and Messy Tessie, are the Garbage Pail Kids, who are depicted on a hot-selling collection of bubble-gum cards manufactured by Topps Chewing Gum, the Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copyrights: Trouble in the Garbage Pail | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...should avoid evil, then The Crimson should fold and attempt to turn itself into the Salient or a party newspaper for the KKK, Playboy, the Nazis and every other evil in our society that we can think of. We should assault our readers with evil; we should distribute vile propaganda free to the doorstep of every undergraduate; we should use Square Deal tactics in pushing our viciousness on every passerby in the Square...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Don't Rationalize Away Sensitivity | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

...told he would have to abide by Crimson discipline--he couldn't wear any "Better Red than Crimson" SYL T-shirts around the big boys at "The Crime." Of course, he eagerly complied. But it took the ISO to show him how he too could be a vile anti-Soviet, anti-Communist liberal like a lot of other Crimson editors, yet still keep a veneer of "radicalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYL Responds | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...that sum to Homosexual Activist Sloan if he could prove that Falwell had publicly denounced a gay church where Sloan once served as a minister. Sloan produced a 1984 videotape of Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, in which he referred to the gay church as "part of a vile and satanic system." Said Sloan: "It's the first time the man's been held accountable for what he's said, in a court of law." Falwell plans to appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1985 | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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