Word: viciousness
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...anti-Semite feels not a humanistic concern for the fate of the Palestinian people, but rather a vicious hatred for the Jews as an aggressive and intelligent race. His superficialties with Palestinian sympathizers are based not upon any moral principle, but rather upon purely racist sentiment. For this reason it is imperative that those who conscientiously support the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland divorce themselves and their cause absolutely from those who oppose the State of Israel solely on the basis of racial prejudice. The former must see in the anti-Semite not an important ally...
...story office block]; there is a bomb planted in New Street in the tax office." The warning was instantly passed on to the police, and patrol cars raced to the area. A quick check at the tax office revealed nothing. Moments later, at 8:20 p.m., a vicious explosion ripped through the Mulberry Bush, a pub beneath the rotunda that was jammed mostly with young people, turning it into a nightmare of burned and dismembered bodies, moans of pain and screams of panic...
Social Peace. Stehlin's assessment was perceived as a vicious stab at the national honor. Gaullist Party Leader Alexandre Sanguinetti howled that his remarks were "an aggression against the nation as a whole." As a result of the furor, Stehlin was forced to resign as vice president of the Assembly, and last week the government ordered him to retire from the air force reserve...
Since its beginning in 1969 the current struggle between radicals and almost everyone else in the Harvard social science faculty has had the vicious and bloodletting quality that only a family struggle can have. The liberal spirit of compromise has given way as the stronger senior faculty has gradually removed almost every one of the radical junior faculty members over the past five years, and has refused to give tenure to even the most respected radical academics, like Bowles or Gintis...
...point, the most vicious of my tormentors got down on his knees in front of me, lifted up my hood so I could see his face and said that he would kill me if I did not cooperate. I believed him. Later, he told me his name: Luis Miranda Filho, a swarthy fat man with a huge black mustache. He is a notorious sadist, known in Recife to be responsible for countless tortures. He and a Colonel Meziat, identified as chief of intelligence of the Fourth Army and the man responsible for my imprisonment and torture, were the only ones...