Word: viciousness
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...tragedy began with a single vicious convulsion that rocked Italy from the tip of the southern Mezzogiorno to the Alps. At first the destruction seemed manageable, but then, slowly, the awful magnitude of the catastrophe began to emerge. Scores of communities had been leveled across 10,000 sq. mi. of the rugged southern countryside. Whole villages were obliterated. Uncounted thousands were buried in the wreckage of their homes, churches and cafes. Delayed by impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing...
...There has to be a reduction in the role of the national security adviser, so he becomes the sort of staff officer that he was intended to be," Sullivan said, adding that "the most vicious sort of contest was going on inside Washington" over the length to which the U.S.should go to keep the shah in power...
UNWILLING TO WAIT even for the arrival of their new conservative brethren, the men and woman of the U.S. Senate, under the inspiring direction of Strom Thurmond, last week launched a vigorous and vicious assault on racial justice and the United States Constitution...
Sandy Bates is an idolized comic-turned-director who is cursed by his own gifts. Steamrollered by his staff -- incompetents to the last man, woman and child -- into attending a weekend retrospective of his work (a vicious parody of Judith Crist's Connecticut film weekends), he finds himself incessantly put upon by fans ("I just adore your movies, especially the earlier funnier ones"), groupies, unemployed actors, and other assorted morons who interrupt even his phone calls with requests for photos, autographs, jobs, charity appearances, sex, or a hearing for some stupendously bad idea for a new movie. In addition...
...apogee in early summer, Anderson was favored by nearly 25% of the voters, according to the surveys, but he was caught in a vicious circle: he could rise no further in the polls if he did not seem to have a chance of winning, and he could not appear to have a chance of winning unless he rose higher in the polls. Trying to break out of his dilemma, Anderson moved left, at least in the perception of many voters, to mobilize his mostly youthful supporters and liberal money givers. As a result, he began losing the backing...