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Word: vileness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temperatures dropping to -94 degrees F. The summers are so short that plants rush wildly to take advantage of the brief heat and light. In some parts of Kamchatka, grasses grow up to 3 in. a day. During that season, bugs proliferate and clouds of mosquitoes, dubbed gnusy (the vile ones), can turn brief strolls into interludes with the vampires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIBERIA: THE TORTURED LAND | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...Some vile organization is going after this country's best and brightest. So why did they start at Dartmouth? Clearly, the biological battle waged against the Big Green only amounted to a test run. Something larger is happening, and only Acting President Albert Carnesale knows exactly what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CARNESALE CONSPIRARCY | 12/10/1994 | See Source »

...early disappointment Harvard will have to look at these as that vile baby food your parents made you eat when you were young...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Third Period Blues | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...little man grew more excited, trembling as he fondled the glossy pamphlets at McKinsey and Company. "You know, there's a vile rumor that they're planning a new booth for English and Classics majors. The Boston Public Works Department ees looking for highly educated saneetation engineers, heh heh!" He almost choked on his own phlegm as he laughed. Soon the wheezing subsided and he continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRESSED TO IMPRESS II | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

...vile, anti-Semitism of Khalid Abdul muhammad at Kean College, publication of "The Jewish Onslaught" by Wellesley Prof. Anthony Martin, and a media frenzy over Louis Farrakhan at UMass--Amherst has triggered another round of debate about academic freedom and offensive speech on campus. Some think "controversial" ideas should be censored. Others say they should be tolerated so long as all sides are heard. That's the idea embodied in Thomas Jefferson's classic exhortation to: "...tolerate error so long as truth is left free to combat...

Author: By Alex Walker, | Title: GUEST COMMENTARY | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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