Word: vileness
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Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues...
...changed his mind and was commissioned an infantry officer in June 1916. Under fire, he matured fast as a man and as a poet. "Hideous landscape here," he wrote home. "Vile poisons, foul language. Everything unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dugout all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious...
...only giving them aid and comfort. The Chinese leaders, said Khrushchev, are producing a growing cluster of Communist splinter parties-which threaten to weaken the international Communist movement. "The imperialists must now be rubbing their hands with satisfaction. Can the great revolutionary cause be betrayed in a more vile...
...brother Moses, apparently better equipped than his dreamy brother to achieve success and enjoy its rewards, is defeated by the metamorphosis of his wife Melissa. Once the personification of love, she is transformed into a spirit of hostile chastity, and then into a voracious nymphomaniac, with Circe's vile power of turning men into beasts. Intended as a design in "improbability," Cheever's Scandal is saying that the bizarre, inexplicable and mythical event is closer to the truth of 1964 than any realistic report...
Martin Kilson, lecturer in government, was no more sanguine about Moslem Mosque Inc. than Wilson. Acknowledging that black nationalism is a legitimate part of American politics. "In fact as vile and mundane as proposals used by white immigrants," Kilson was pessi- mistic about the possibility of fashioning a better state by a separatist movement. The lack of social structure in urban Negro populations makes it almost impossible. Kilron said, to organize effectively outside the system...