Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are randomly promiscuous: "Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties." Although they cast spells over their ex-husbands that reduced all three to inert household objects, their witchcraft is ordinarily mischievous rather than malign. When Alexandra wants to walk her dog on the beach without a leash, she simply conjures up a thunderstorm to drive bathers away...
...along the sides. He is a likable TV dad who lugs a briefcase to an unspecified job and calls his daughter "Princess." With a model wife (Glenn Close) and two exemplary daughters-in-residence, everything ought to be as comfy cozy as Father Knows Best. But Bennett conceals a malign secret: he is sexually abusing his 13-year-old daughter Amelia (played with poker-faced intensity by Roxana...
...fall of great personages from high places (casus virorum illustrium) gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character." The real '60s began on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, and they turned festive and brutal too. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. His assassination became the prototype in a series of public murders: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy. His death prefigured all the deaths of the young in Viet...
Although student recruiters here have increased their efforts at contacting Black students who apply to Harvard. Ari M. Fitzgerald '84, co-coordinator for Black recruiting, said that undergraduate recruiters never try to malign other schools to convince students to come to Harvard...
...malign indifference of the great powers is an inevitable part of the portage. In Paris, a French official worries lest the half-forgotten crimes of the Vichy regime be embarrassingly exposed. A German veteran, now a government lawyer, wonders who will have jurisdiction over the prisoner. A boisterous American who flies to Brazil and starts prattling about television syndication turns out to be a representative...