Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel The Octopus by Frank Norris, which romanticizes the grain farmer, the villain is buried alive under a mountain of wheat. Across the Midwest, many farmers are increasingly fearful that they are about to be buried financially in a similar fashion. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed its estimates of record U.S. and world grain production in 1982. In Minnesota and the Dakotas, farmers are stuffing unsold wheat into their sheds, leaving tractors and combines out in the cold. An abandoned coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied...
Close investigation is unlikely to reveal any single villain--such as "racist coaches" or "alumni pressure"--in a complex situation which starts with the Harvard application process and ends with minority students' career aims. It is precisely because the situation is so complex that a good, thorough investigation is needed...
...this furor about prayers in school [Oct. 4] is ridiculous! A young person can pray and pray and still become a villain. If the frenzy were about teaching ethics, there would be some sense...
...villain, according to Sáenz and other Puerto Rican doctors, could be the local food-beef, chicken and that fundamental childhood staple, milk. These physicians suspect that meat and milk producers are unlawfully using estrogen and related compounds, including the federally banned carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), to add heft to their animals. High consumption of such chemicals has been known to cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to eight months. The charges have triggered a spate of Government investigations, a volley of denials by the meat...
DIED. Fernando Lamas, 67, charmingly stylish Argentine-born actor whose roles were largely limited to playing the Latin lover and villain in two dozen American films; of cancer; in Los Angeles...