Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proudery and arrogance dissolved rapidly on Berhala. The prisoners shared the floor with swarms of vicious rats. The diet consisted of rice sweepings, a tough, rubbery green vegetable and tea. For latrines there were two tin buckets. Filth and vitamin deficiency brought on dysentery, influenza, beriberi and several other diseases, mostly untreated. When the guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics...
Most interesting bout of the evening will probably be the three-rounder between fleet, vicious, one-armed Tommy Rodgers and Somerby Dowst. Rodgers' jarring, flailing right hand earned him a unanimous decision yesterday from John Lord...
...hands of an over-zealous or personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility to vicious abuse and weakens an important safeguard to democratic rights...
...pitting of farmer against labor here in Minnesota in a divide-and-rule program has long been Republican and Farm Bureau strategy, and proposed anti-labor legislation has been particularly vicious. Farmers would like to have dollar-a-pound butter but don't want labor to get the dollar to buy it with. . . . The farm attitude expressed by the head of a large producer cooperative in Minnesota was put in these startling words: "When there is enough butter, there is too much!" Mr. Ball ought to realize that the farmers have been on a sit-down strike...
They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both...