Word: villainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort of moral coda in which Greenwald, more than mildly drunk, berates his own tactics and denounces the real villain of the "mutiny...
...magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis, and why only qualified physicians should make...
...Laureanistas are often called Bluebirds-blue being the Conservative color and bird the local slang for villain. One area where the Bluebirds are on the rampage is the south. Two months ago they hacked 14 Liberal farmers to death and hurled their bodies into the Bache River. Terrorized Caicedonia, 125 miles west of Bogota, is another Bluebird battlefield. A two-street town with a population of only 5,200, it has seen twelve murders in the last six weeks. Twenty others have been killed in the area around Caicedonia...
Rickover had graduated from the Submarine School at New London, Conn., and spent three of his seagoing years as a peacetime submarine officer. Well he knew the "pigboats" and well he knew that hated villain, the storage battery, that each submarine carries in its belly. When a submarine dives (as it must in action), all it has for propulsion is electric motors turned by the limited energy stored in the battery...
...yearns for freedom that she risks her life in return for a brief holiday from jail. Lloyd Bridges painfully grows in stature from a conniving cop to a man ready to count his world well lost for love. But, as often happens in the theater, it is Villain Gregory with his unrepentant, double-dealing philosophy who comes most alive on the stage: the only unconvincing note in his performance is his being outwitted by the hero at the play...