Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign of Labour candidate Thatchell. Securing the nomination through the support of radical leaders in the local council. Thatchell loudly backed radical socialism, gay rights, and extraparliamentary opposition to the government; his opponents responded with death threats and allegations about his sexual preferences. In the wake of all the vitriol, Labour leaders preferred, understandably, to attribute the defeat to the "Thatchell Factor" rather than to any lapse in public confidence...
...campus the merciless vitriol of a conservative weekly has provoked an uneasy, university-wide debate about just how much free speech a civilized community can tolerate. Pervading the pages of the Dartmouth Review, founded in 1980, is a sophomoric brand of macho humor. An essay in its Oct. 18 issue spoke scornfully of a "never-never land where men are women and women are persons." The same issue contained a mock memo berating student homosexuals: "Wasn't the closet more comfortable than the trash bag? You guys could suffocate." Contends Editor in Chief E. William Cattan: "We are writing...
...work were rarely mentioned. Presumably, that kind of Hobbesian savagery comes so naturally to them that it hardly bears remarking. There was a strange compliment concealed here. The world accused Israel so violently in part because the massacre profoundly violated Israel's own moral standards. Some of the vitriol, too, was just anti-Semitism dressed up to look like righteous indignation...
...Pistols' punk movement, he found a comfortable niche anyway, "surfing" on the new wave, as he likes to put it. A pumped-up Steve Nieve keyboard; an acid-tinged tongue; a bitter searching voice--these were the early Costello trademarks, and they even betrayed at times a vitriol seldom equaled by the best of the punks...
...GEORGE F. WILL, philosopher and ruminator, is also George F. Will, human being. And his conservatism spills over from the political world to the personal idiosyncracies he shares with millions of readers. The man who named his daughter Victoria (nickname "Tory") aims his pen with equal vitriol at the designed hitter rule, modern art, and new cars with gaudy interior design. The admiration he expressed for Lech Walesa is no more important than his celebration of the ringing of bells (church, not door or phone), the National Cathedral, the Chicago Cubs, and the semi-colon...