Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vicious-things we hope would come true...
...library is poring over it, but the odds are against this; usually the book is just "missing" or is residing in some tutor's quarters. That tutors in residence may take books from the House library for an entire term is certainly an unfortunate, and possibly a vicious, practice. House libraries are primarily for the use of undergraduates; the fact that he lives in a House is not reason enough for a tutor to be allowed to empty shelves of important books for months at a time. Widener is the University's main library; it is here that faculty members...
Questioned from the floor on whether the split between western and Eastern Europe could be soldered, Bonnet stated that peace and health are as contagious as "the most vicious diseases." "With the strengthening of the forces for peace in the West, the East will be bound to come to political and economic terms. Until then communism will continue to triumph," he said...
...Vicious Society. Composer Britten regards this opera as "a subject very close to my heart-the struggle of the individual against the masses. The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual." Actually, Grimes does not defy the masses, only their fury: he would like to be one of them...
...nine ambitious men gathered at City Hall to elect a Mayor of Cambridge. Today, seven weeks and 841 futile ballots later, the City Council is still unable to decide which one among them shall serve as the chief executive. The filibuster has seen the Council Chamber criss-crossed by vicious political tracers, it has turned simple ambition into bitter perversity, and has delayed vital legislation. Resulting from a hopelessly disorganized political system and a calculated smear campaign by a few professional politicians, the lengthy stalemate can only give the Councilmen enough rope to hang themselves and possibly the city along...