Word: viciousness
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...Washington, the wary reaction was that Castro might be playing another of his vicious little games-possibly putting out another ransom feeler, as he did with the Bay of Pigs prisoners, or possibly laying a trap to lure anti-Castro Cubans into exposing themselves. The U.S. called the offer "vague and ambiguous," said that Castro ought to use diplomatic channels for his offer, then later announced that it would accept any and all refugees if Castro was really serious about it. President Johnson even indicated that he would ask Congress for a $12.6 million appropriation to help get the program...
Twice the U.S. offered to fly him home in hopes he could impose some leadership on the rebels, who were waging a vicious sniper war against peacekeeping U.S. troops. Twice Bosch refused. "I am not the man to correct mistakes caused by U.S. intervention," he said. "I am not prepared to deal with the thousands of Communists that American actions are creating...
Doctors have tried everything they could think of to check staph, and now it appears that a good way to do it is to fight staph with staph. There are as many varieties of staph as there are breeds of dogs, and some are harmless while others are vicious. Researchers in Manhattan and Cincinnati got the idea that if they could "infect" newborn babies with a harmless strain, these germs might somehow prevent later invasion by dangerous strains...
Actor Cyril Ritchard calls her "Acidy Cassidy." Director Tyrone Guthrie finds her "vicious and irresponsible." Contralto Marie Powers once threatened to clout her in the snoot, and had to be restrained from doing so. The object of these strong sentiments is the Chicago Tribune's deceptively frail Claudia Cassidy, whose barbed pen has made her the most widely read and feared critic of the lively arts in the Midwest. She has written finish to many a career in Chicago, notably those of two local conductors who left after continual Cassidy pannings...
Bogeywomen. All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he "organized his tonton macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants, tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary−the fillette lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory as their male counterparts...