Word: violent
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...result, Solzhenitsyn regards moral relativism as a virulent modern disease, though he distinguishes between actions natural to man-some of them violent -and unnatural cruelties. In The First Circle, after a discussion of what is right and what is wrong, a peasant-prisoner named Spiridon remarks: "Wolfhounds are right, cannibals are wrong...
...often ruthless nature, joined the British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made Mufti (a jurist who interprets Moslem religious law), in effect leader, of Palestine's Arabs. He then turned against the British, beginning a long career of violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile by the British. After years of cloak-and-daggery in various Arab lands, he served Adolf Hitler by broadcasting anti-Allied propaganda to the Moslem world from Berlin. He later...
Here is an account of the news in Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul: "A retired general had died in Cordoba at the age of eighty; a few bombs had exploded in Bogotá, and of course the Argentine football team was continuing its violent progress through Europe." Of course. The old innocent view that the game itself could be, to its supporters and players alike, a purge of violent emotions has long been exploded. Soccer is not the poor man's Sophocles...
While consumers reeled from violent run-ups in food prices last year, and at one point even organized a nationwide meat boycott, farmers happily harvested record profits. In 1974, the roles are being reversed: consumers can at last sight some relief from food inflation, and the farmers are talking about-and in some cases organizing-boycotts to keep their incomes from sliding...
...zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms-the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example...