Word: viciousness
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Other proposals, however, are vicious, born more of desperation and frustration. In Fort Lauderdale a city commissioner suggested rat poison as a topping for local garbage to discourage foraging. A member of the Los Angeles County board of supervisors advocated placing the homeless on a barge in Los Angeles Harbor. In El Paso last month, four billboards of unknown sponsorship sprang up: PLEASE DON'T GIVE TO BEGGARS -- THEY CAUSE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. El Paso City Representative Ed Elsey has received complaints that some panhandlers scratch cars with rocks or spit on the windshields if drivers refuse to give. "They...
...boys of Viet Nam fought a terrible and vicious war . . . It was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march . . . They chose to believe and answer the call of duty...
...There are certain things I have done that I take great pride in: going down to El Salvador and talking to those comandantes ((in 1983)), helping shape public opinion on arms control, going over to Europe in the face of those vicious demonstrations ((in 1983)). But my philosophy is that when you're part of an Administration, you don't jump out and try to take credit. You are part of a team...
Earlier this week a judge in U.S. District Court in Boston found that the world's most famous maker of disposable razors was guilty of printing a misleading ad during a vicious proxy battle last year...
Beyond the power and slam, the appeal of boxing may just be its simplicity. It is so basic and bare. In a square ring or vicious circle, stripped to the waist and bone, punchers and boxers counteract. Tyson is already the first, and potentially the second, so the eternal matchup of gore and guile doesn't just occupy him outwardly, it swirls inside him as well. Modern moviemakers are good at capturing the choreography of fights -- they understand the Apache dance. But in their Dolby deafness they overdo the supersonic bashing and skip one of the crucial attractions: the missing...