Word: vitriol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge. Harold J. Laski, later famed as an economist at London University's School of Economics, and then a tutor in the division of History, Government, and Economics here, caused the Lampoon to depart from its humorous ways. In its own words, the Lampoon "dipped its pen in vitriol," and castigated Mr. Laski, dedicating a whole issue to the radical who had advocated anarchy in a Boston Milk Strike. From cover to cover, in cartoon, verse, and prose, he was represented as the worst of Bolsheviks--morally and politically...
Says Cèline: "Mumblers and cowards." or hypocrites who are content to remain "flashy gangrenes, vested in elegant, bloody brocades," need not read his books. They can simply go to hell and be "munched with tongues of flame . . . slaking your thirst . . . with a skinful of vinegar, of vitriol so hot that your tongue peels, puffs, bursts . . . and so on through eternal time...
...four are badly divided on only one issue: compulsory FEPC. Harriman is strongly for it, Russell strongly opposed; Kefauver and Kerr are weaseling. On foreign policy, none of them differs appreciably with the Truman-Acheson line. All are increasing the vitriol content in their remarks about Eisenhower...
...read his vitriol you'd think...