Word: viciousness
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...table, accused the SYL of being a "security risk" and threw us off the premises as if we were common criminals. This semester the administration has continued this campaign by harassing SYL literature distributors at the Kennedy School and Adams House. Equating Marxists with muggers is the type of vicious slander spewed by McCarthyites during the fifties. This is an attack on open political discussion and the democratic rights of everyone and must be protested...
...point nine minutes into the third. There was Hehir 50 seconds later sweeping in on the Harvard net. There was the puck that landed on the back of the net at the ten-minute mark that led to a premature Eagle celebration. There was B.C. blueliner Jim Chisholm's vicious slapshot at 12:10. There were others, lost in the pages of an overflowing notebook and post-game ecstacy...
These people are not mean or vicious or inherently stupid. It's just that most of them never take enough time to hear what people are saying, to try perceiving things from the viewpoints of those who disagree. The set of beliefs produces a system where only the most confident (some would say arrogant) and aggressive in the bunch get the undergraduate education that Harvard University should be giving each of its students. The rest, left to flounder in the nether reaches of the Economics, Biology or History departments and to deal with professors who should have given up teaching...
Linebackers Frank Lemaster and Bill Bergey, seasoned veterans, are vicious. But the key to the Eagle defense is lightning-quick Jerry Robinson, perhaps the best defensive player in the NFC--or best overall--this year. Built to cope with the explosion in passing offense in the NFL over the last few years, Robinson is an omnipresent force...
After a five-day recess, Prosecutor Jiang Wen condemned Mme. Mao's defense as "a vicious slander and calumny of Chairman Mao Tse-tung." Significantly, the prosecutor did acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...