Word: viciousness
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...London Barrister Niall MacDermot), Amin first threatened to expel Uganda's 1,500 Britons on 48 hours notice, then backed down from the deadline at the behest of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta. But he warned that "drastic action" would still be taken if Britain's "vicious anti-Uganda campaign does not stop...
...historians misread the past-through misuse of figures, inadequate training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes affect views of the dead past. Any stigma will do to beat a vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities I and weakness. Abolitionists like Frederick Law Olmsted and Cassius Marcellus Clay and slavery...
...refusal of Elliot L. Richardson '41 last October to fire former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 appeared a welcome relief. But Richardson's minimal act, clearly also an act of political necessity, did not erase his earlier record. Nor did his supposed act of conscience remedy the vicious policies of which Watergate was the dramatic consequence--policies Richardson helped implement as Secretary of Defense and earlier as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Public respect should not be bought so cheaply...
...chance to either save his new-found wealth or spend it on the television sets and tape recorders that he makes, doubts spread as to whether anyone had really won any thing worthwhile. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka warned that the big pay raises could set off a vicious wage-price spiral that would boomerang against consumers and threaten Japan's competitiveness in world markets. The workers themselves, who had gone so far as to stage a two-day transportation strike to press their demands, concede gloomily that most of their gains have al ready been wiped out by Japan...
Brutalized in an early marriage, she has cultivated her fat as protective armor so as never to be wanted again. Though neither of them could begin to say it, they are spent with running from the vicious foxhounds of the world. They are both seeking the peace and safety that Blanche DuBois called "a cleft in the rock of the world," and at play's end they seem to have found...