Word: vileness
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...Georgians into line and reduce what a party paper calls their "deviations from the norm of Communist morality." So far he has swept at least 45 officials out of the local party. In addition to economic crimes, the purged party officials were accused of accepting payoffs and, equally vile, indulging in ideological slackness...
...when he cannot make a character live, he can always make him talk. Wilson people talk about Russian novels and sex, the Third World and God. Give them notice, or no notice at all, and they will do a turn on Marxism or produce a passable limerick. For these vile bodies of the '70s are as restless in the spirit as in the flesh...
Tommy Hughes, an 18-year-old machine operator, complains that the Japanese "have vile tempers. As soon as something goes wrong, no matter how small, they act like little kids." But John Davies, 45, who represents the employees on the plant's Japanese-style "works committee," renders the final verdict: "We asked to finish at 4:30 p.m. instead of 5 on Friday; they gave us that. We asked for a Christmas holiday; they gave us that. We asked for a sickness scheme, and they gave us that too. These Japanese seem to understand us. I wouldn...
...young Churchill duly records the Crown's triumph in the Sudan over "these savages with their vile customs and brutal ideas." But in South Africa, he praises "the stubborn, unpretentious valour of the Boer." British set backs make him fudge, apologize, sermonize. He is capable of humor, though. "Islam," he writes, "does indeed teach man how to die, [but] dying is a trick very few people have been unable to pick...
...MAKES hasty pudding anymore. We can thank the boys over at 12 Holyoke St. for that, if nothing else. A vile combination of corn meal, Lutmeg, giner, eggs, water, milk, molasses and butter, the stuff used to be whipped up in the late 1700s by Harvard undergraduates to supplement the rather gross fare of the pre-Central Kitchen era. In those days, the story goes, you might catch a glimpse some night of students bearing a steaming kettle of this poison on a pole to wherever the Hasty Pudding Club was assembled for the evening. Everybody would then fill themselves...