Word: viciousness
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...Jersey Supreme Court was not particularly impressed by the claims of Murderer Louis Van Duyne. Convicted of what the court called "the patently vicious crime" of beating his wife to death with his fists, Van Duyne had appealed on the ground that among others Paterson newspapers inflamed the jury against him by saying that he had been "arrested at least ten times," had once "threatened to kill a cop," was now "accused of brutally beating his wife," and had allegedly told police, "You've got me for murder. I don't desire to tell you anything." The court...
Rather than alienate responsible conservatives with vicious attacks on Burch, liberals and moderates should attempt to develop a reasonable Republican critique of Administration policy. By functioning as a loyal opposition in Congress, the GOP can be a constructive force in the formulation of legislative decisions and national goals. This year's civil rights bill was substantially improved by Republican participation in the debate, and even under Taft conservatism contributed materially to housing legislation and bipartisan foreign policy. Constructive criticism during the new Johnson administration--in such areas as tax reform, education legislation, and defense policy. Constructive criticism during...
...some youngsters, usually those of an introspective and sensitive nature, become addicted to it. They fall into a vicious cycle in which long hours of viewing leave them too tired to do anything more strenuous than sprawl out to do more viewing. The ultimate cure is as simple as it is radical: send the kids out to play, and after dark give them a book to read...
Bestsellers. Thus, what the campaign has really come down to is a back-alley fight featuring such pejorative words and phrases as "liar," "demagogue," "socialist," "irresponsible," "reckless," "soft on Communism," and "fascist." Scurrilous paperback books about both candidates have become bestsellers. Vicious television commercials have depicted Goldwater as a man willing to sprinkle a little girl's ice cream with cancer-causing strontium...
...Celestino returns to Madrid to settle a will, and there he attends a mediocre bullfight. He comes to understand that a certain ill-favored bull, badly killed with four clumsy thrusts of the sword, represents Man. "More and more wary and more and more duped, more and more vicious and more and more mocked, more and more both impotent and dangerous, ineluctably doomed to die and yet still capable of killing: such was the bull at the end of its life, and such is man." Deeply troubled, Celestino returns to his hotel, lies down, experiences four agonizing pains along...