Word: viciousness
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...cost of it all has been huge. The vicious civil war that followed the Bolshevik coup decimated the Russian population and laid waste the land. The Stalinist reign of terror destroyed millions of Russians, among them many of the most intelligent and talented, and put a permanent scar of guilt on the nation's psyche. Industrialization was accomplished only by forced labor and the long and severe deprivation of the populace. The self-defeating collectivization of agriculture was squeezed from the blood and brows of the stolid and melancholy peasantry. Fear has been the single most dominant characteristic...
...your vicious act," intoned Mary land Judge James H. Pugh, "you are not entitled to any consideration by the court. You were so ravenous that nothing could prevent you from committing this treacherous act. You were determined to satisfy your passionate desires." He then proceeded to sentence two Negro defendants-James and John Giles-to the gas chamber for the rape of a white girl near Spencerville, Md. In a separate trial, a third defendant, Joseph Johnson, was also convicted and condemned. Though the three hardly thought so then, they were actually lucky to get the death sentence. The punishment...
...first half. The Green kept the ball on Harvard's half of the field, but time after time the Crimson defense warded off Dartmouth scoring threats. Harvard's Parker Wise--who left a trail of green jerseys wherever he roamed--choked off a Dartmouth sweep with a vicious tackle about 5 yards from pay-dirt...
...create a community of independent countries preceded by more than a century the formation of today's Organization of American States. Toynbee himself hedges on his theory. Suppose, he suggests, peaceful "integration" of all Latin American countries were to come about. Would it be followed "by a more vicious regional super-nationalism?" For Toynbee, who takes the practiced historian's long view, Latin America may not reach a state of political grace in any event: "The sequel to the 19th century unification of Germany is a bad augury...
...Squalid, vicious, mean and stupid, Pinter's characters may seem to deserve all the bad things in life. They are certainly a thoroughly unsympathetic lot, and not one of them ever performs a generous act. They are animals, but first of all they are theatrical animals. They hold the stage like a military position. An actor long before he became a playwright, Pinter writes scenes with which actors can rivet an audience's attention. His stage animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have...