Word: wickedest
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...snow came fluttering down, conveniently, on the weekend, the first real fall of the season in many areas. It ended four days later as one of the century's wickedest storms, a Belial of a blizzard that disrupted life for millions in the eastern third of the nation and caused at least 208 deaths...
...demented brain. In this threadbare, novelistic pastiche, Vincent Sheean treats Seneca far worse. Though the historical Seneca was second only to Cicero as an exponent of Stoicism, Sheean's Seneca has only windy self-pity and a maundering facility with cosmic clichés ("In my opinion the wickedest and unworthiest of men are generally the most rewarded"). He shows little understanding of his venomous pupil, perhaps because Sheean's Nero is not a character at all but a dim amal gam of perfumes, painted lips and libido. In all, Sheean has taken one of history...
...buccaneering days of the 17th century, Jamaica was the lustiest port of call on the Spanish Main. Out of old Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing...
...applied this to the case of Adolf Eichmann. "Eichmann is one of the wickedest men that ever lived," he said, but suggested that "justice toward Eichmann" is really "sadistic pleasure in punishing." "Isn't this Eichmann's kind of pleasure...
...Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...