Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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That may be harder than it seems. The ideological right wing seethed with rage at what it saw as Heseltine's betrayal in contesting Thatcher for the leadership. In an editorial, the London Times said the challenge was "monstrous cruel," exemplifying "squalid maneuvering by an introverted male establishment terrified it might lose office." Still, the voice of that same British establishment went on in its editorial to fault Thatcher for complacency. She was blamed for failing to defuse the threat to her position that had begun 10 days earlier with the devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons...
Party chairman Gregor Gysi, who called the raids a monstrous action, said they were carried out without search warrants. Otto Lambsdorff, head of the Free Democratic Party, a partner in the coalition government in Bonn, said he learned with "extreme regret" that prosecutors had not obtained the warrants...
RICHARD III. Funny but never scary, Stacy Keach's inexplicably ballyhooed performance at Washington's Folger Theater suggests Captain Hook more than Shakespeare's monstrous monarch. The ensemble surrounding him is strictly amateur night, a melange of mincing courtiers portraying what are supposed to be buccaneer politicians. The sole saving grace is K. Lype O'Dell's intelligent, opportunistic and mercifully underplayed Hastings...
...gain coddled, preferential treatment for courses: they have first-year seminars and receive occasional favoritism in Core lotteries. But these small perks are the exceptions that prove the rule. The academic system for Harvard undergraduates seems designed to frustrate intellectual curiousity and to keep first-year students safely in monstrous, impersonal, general introductory classes and exclusively first-year classes like Expository Writing and seminars...
...they both claimed as a victory, the two split up the company, with Griffin taking most of Resorts and Trump getting the uncompleted Taj Mahal. Griffin's older, debt-laden properties went into bankruptcy only two years later. Trump had to borrow an estimated $1 billion to finish the monstrous Taj. Ominously, the city's casino business, which had grown pell-mell during the '80s, abruptly stagnated...