Word: viciousness
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...learn the language, he must first write a petition in it. One of the biggest hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways and hedges, which represent bureaucracy. While an amused keeper watches with his vicious dog, they crawl piteously about, toss out the bones of their dead comrades and conduct absurd conversations...
Long suffering from waning prestige, the Bat's real troubles began this Fall after an unsuccessful punching season, Michael H. Abelon '68 said yesterday. "We spent a lot of money, but we couldn't get enough members," Abelon said. "Then it turned into a vicious cycle--the less money we had, the harder it was to attract members...
...Vicious Circle. In deciding the new force levels needed for Viet Nam, the President faces a bitter dilemma. In the nation's unhappy mood, he will have trouble persuading his countrymen that they can profitably enlarge the already sizable expeditionary force by as much as 40%. Moreover, Hanoi, with 350,000 of its 410,000 regulars still in the North, could easily respond by sending a few more divisions. A dramatic victory would help Johnson to make his case-but it may be difficult for U.S. commanders to produce that kind of victory without considerably more troops...
Thus they find themselves in a vicious circle. In this situation, there is more and more talk of the need to find a formula to end the war. Some suggest a bombing halt to test whether, as United Nations Secretary-General U Thant maintains, Hanoi really will show up at the negotiating table in a matter of days. Others propose the establishment of a joint command to give the U.S. greater leverage over the erratic South Vietnamese army. But one U.S. officer argues: "We've got to make sure that when we walk out of here some...
Their loyalty, of course, has a basis in fear, the political fear of the vicious Tonton Macoute and the mystic fear that Duvalier's own voodoo practice has generated. He takes the name "Baron Samedi"--one of the manifestations of the voodoo deity--and in 1963, when he popularized the story that he had engineered Kennedy's assassination through voodoo, many Haitians believed...