Word: vilest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following Italy's medievally strict leprosy laws, threw him into Rome's Lazzaretto Lazaro Spallanzani.* Though he was repeatedly certified "noncontagious and innocuous," it took Orano months to get away to France with his wife Giulia, a former nurse. But after six years of campaigning against the "vilest humiliations" and "unreasoning, medieval terror of leprosy," Orano was finally locked up by the French. So back he went to Rome...
...Vilest Practice. But that night Johnson moved in gallantly to help Kennedy recoup. John McClellan's amendment, he pointed out to Southerners, was a Southerner's booby trap. If the Secretary of Labor were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write...
Meanwhile, fighting on other fronts, McClellan introduced an amendment to prohibit blackmail picketing, i.e., picketing to force a company to recognize a union. Cried he: "This is one of the vilest practices going on in the country...
...life from unwary travelers, demons who cause hailstorms and earthquakes and eclipses. The Tibetan Buddhist contemplates an intricate pantheon, from the five Dhyani-Buddhas, who share the guardianship of the world, to hosts of spirits. Yet, writes Tibetan Scholar Maurice Percheron: "All, from the Dhyani-Buddhas to the vilest ghost, are nothing but the sparklings of a single diamond . . . only Enlightenment allows one to perceive the unity that underlies all this diversity." This is the faith that reigns supreme in Tibet...
...extravagance, there might have been expected at least one big, rich, interesting failure; the Poets' Theatre has gratified this expectation by presenting the world premiere of The Doctor and the Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters. The second problem, once stated, is largely...