Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancient Forbidden City, poised on the rooftops of the Great Hall of the People and Mao ) Zedong's mausoleum, entering the vast, 100-acre square from side streets in a triple-fanged movement from the south, west and east. Ten thousand strong, the army mounted a deliberately vicious assault...
...sure, teenagers have never been angels. Adolescence is often a troubled time of rebellion and rage. From West Side Story to Rebel Without a Cause, the violence of youth has been chronicled on stage and screen. But juvenile crime appears to be more widespread and vicious than ever before. "Burglars used to rob a house and then run away. Now they urinate or defecate in the home or burn it up before leaving," says Shawn Johnston, a forensic psychologist in Sacramento. "Thieves mugged a person and ran off. Now they beat their victims." Or rape or murder them...
...offenders are overwhelmingly male, but girls too are capable of vicious crimes. In Escondido, Calif., a 16-year-old girl and three teenage boys went on an arson spree last March. The group set four fires at three schools, causing damage that will cost more than $1 million to repair. A 16-year-old girl from Cape Cod, Mass., who had been drinking stabbed her male cousin, severely injuring...
...political revenge at its most brutal, the latest and most vicious reminder yet of Noriega's arrogant lawlessness. For more than a year, Noriega has ignored two U.S. indictments accusing him of complicity in the international drug trade. He has jailed or deported opponents, destroyed the sprigs of a free press, and watched his country slide into economic ruin rather than give up the whips of power. Nonetheless, Noriega outdid himself last week by stealing an election so brazenly that, in the words of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, it amounted to "a coup d'etat...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...