Word: viciousness
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...education is only one phase of the self-perpetuating cycle that entraps the Negro-a low-paying job, or none at all, leading to housing in a slum, leading to a segregated, second-rate school, leading back to an inferior job. The basic way to break the vicious circle, thinks Moynihan, is with money. "Beef up the family income," he says, "and everything else will follow in its train." Moynihan proposes two measures. The Federal Government, he says, should guarantee jobs by becoming the "employer of last resort" any time the national unemployment rate is above 3%. Merely putting...
...Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State have crushed the dirty, free, vicious vagrants...
...cars, had gathered in front of the welfare office before the police began to move. According to men who were outside, the crowd was agitated but peaceful until a mother shouted out the window about the beatings inside. Pinney and John M. Mendeloff '68, who was also inside, reported vicious beatings as the police attempted to clear the building. "The cops suddenly came out wanting to fight, swinging and cursing at the Negroes," they said. One teenager was thrown through a window...
...Nasty & Vicious. In just such a manner last week, North Koreans struck twice at U.S. and South Korean positions in and near the DMZ. Just before dawn, a North Korean band slipped into a barbed-wire compound of the U.S. 2nd Division just south of the DMZ and planted bombs under two Quonset barracks; the resulting explosion killed two Americans and injured 16 others, along with two South Korean soldiers. A few days later, North Koreans who were attempting to infiltrate a guard post in the same area exchanged fire with U.S. and South Korean troops, wounding an American...
...attention from South Viet Nam, the bigger reason for North Korea's provocations is to divert its own people's thoughts from their deepening economic troubles. "The Communist actions," says General Charles Bonesteel III, the United Nations and U.S. Eighth Army commander in Korea, "are nasty and vicious, but they amount largely to frustrated impotency...