Word: viles
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...with loathing upon those despised traitors" (Marshal Bulganin). "Spies and provocateurs" (Foreign Minister Molotov). "The fascist Tito's clique is a gang of British-American hired spies and murderers ... a despicable band of traitors and betrayers of their motherland" (Nikita Khrushchev). "The workers have long since discerned the vile and repulsive snout of the Belgrade deserter, hireling, spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor." (Literary Gazette...
Political Philosophy: "Wild rape and terrorizing . . . unabashed trading away of blood" (Marshal Voroshilov). "Oppression and exploitation . . . adventurisms, leftist ravings. vile maneuvers . . ." (Cominform Journal...
...blood for the first time, heralding the tuberculosis that would kill him 20 years later. In letter after letter, he issued bulletins on "my phlebitis in the left leg," on palpitations of the heart ("Every minute my heart stops for several seconds and does not beat"), on hemorrhoids ("a vile, despicable malady"), and even recognized the psychosomatic nature of some of his ailments. ("My intestinal catarrh left me the moment I left Uncle's. Evidently the odor of sanctity has a weakening effect on my insides...
...torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone has been able to match Hollywood at every point except two-the high-necked kimono is more resistant to bosomy uplift than the Boston board of censors. But along with cues from...
...under the proper circumstances, in sober fact the pregnancy may express hostility on the part of either husband or wife, increase the self-esteem of either, or be a mere coincidence . . . For the woman who has been trained to regard men as beasts, sexual intercourse as vile, and childbirth as a sort of vaginal Armageddon, the pregnancy may be a massing together of terrors...