Word: vilest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudy Giuliani will run the vilest possible campaign. He has no scruples, and he'll do anything to win. Nevertheless, Hillary has a spine made of steel and will overcome it. There'll be no surprises for her in terms of the garbage that will be hurled at her by Giuliani and his supporters. She'll beat Rudy Giuliani...
...brings vengeance and solace to the families of victims. In fact, executions must be speeded up; death row is too long." This argument holds that a central reason for conducting an execution is the shock value, the satisfyingly swift and sure justice of the chair. Society must rid its vilest elements in good part as a catharsis for those that they most directly affect. Besides, the state could save money: the long death row process of appeals and incarceration adds to an already costly punishment...
However, I felt that the inflammatory nature and sweeping generalizations that filled Mr. Brown's article merited a response. I disagree strongly with his contention that the Confederate flag only represents "murder, lynching, rape and treason" and only embodies the "vilest capacities of man." I will not deny that those hideous actions occurred underneath that flag, nor will I hide from the fact that the "vilest capacities of man" were manifested under the Confederate flag in the form of slavery. Yet, all of these actions also have occurred underneath the American flag. Slavery was practiced underneath the American flag decades...
...Olympic Games in Munich, athletes competed beneath the unfurled flags of Nazi Germany--flags symbolizing a regime that spawned worldwide evil and terror. In Atlanta in the summer of 1996, barring significant political developments, athletes will again have to collect their Olympic medals under a flag which represents the vilest capacities of man--the Confederate flag, an integral part of the Georgia state flag. Indeed, both flags stand for a holocaust--one of Jews slaughtered in ovens, the other of Africans who perished during the Middle Passage...