Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...much this agreement will really help the over-produced tire industry is yet to be seen, but it aims to terminate the most vicious phase of overproduction: price-cutting. The recent war began around July i when one large manufacturer broke the unwritten law of the tire world by stealing an important southwest dealership from another. Retaliatory steps were taken; other companies became involved; havoc was played as each company vied in adding more 10% discounts to its prices than rivals...
Charge: BCG vaccine is vicious, because composed of living tuberculosis bacilli. It killed 57 infants at Lubeck, Germany, this summer...
American politics and has failed every time. He asked me to write for his press last summer and I declined [cries of Hear! Hear!" from Baldwin sympathizer*]. ln October he wrote a vicious article about me, and at the same time a fulsome account of Mr. MacDonald whom he has abused like a pickpocket within the last two months...
...opinion that it should have been worked out in such a way that men having substantial incomes should not draw pensions from the Government . . . [also] I do not believe it is right to change our national policy to pay disability allowances to men who may destroy their health by vicious habits...
...rolling cloud of snow preceding the avalanche swept down upon them and they vanished, completely blotted out like insects. "It was the most terrible spectacle I have ever witnessed. The roar grew louder as the clouds of snow swept nearer, moving with incredible velocity, while here and there vicious tongues of ice shot out under the confused jumble of great ice blocks rolling and sliding down." The dead: Chettan, oldtime porter, member of the last three Himalayan expeditions. Injured: Climber E. Schneider and two porters...