Word: viciousness
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Premier Cyrille Adoula hardly seemed the man. His government had been unable to suppress the vicious Communist-encouraged rebellions...
Then came the betrayals. The Pathet Lao began wooing Kong Le's men, mounting quick, vicious infantry actions against his positions on the Plain of Jars in hopes of grabbing territory. When a Pathet Lao gunman shot down Kong Le's top deputy, the idealistic neutralist was well on his way to becoming a fervent antiCommunist. The Reds pulled out of the coalition government when a left-leaning minister was assassinated by a neutralist soldier...
...smearing by the country's liberal press, TV and radio notwithstanding, thank goodness Governor Wallace made quite a showing! Would that more men had his guts and spoke the truth as he does about the vicious so-called "civil rights bill"! So many in the U.S. are willing to sell their traditions and their racial integrity for a mongrelized mess of pottage...
...band of terrorists attacked a police patrol, killed two constables and escaped with their rifles. Next morning an elderly Negro couple was found shot to death on their nearby farm. At news of the killings, a raging mob of Negroes halted a Georgetown-bound train and in a vicious melee left 17 East Indians injured, including one victim with both hands, both legs and his back broken. In Georgetown, gangs of Negroes beat up hundreds of Indians, looted Indian market stalls, robbed Indian workers, chased Indian children out of a school...
Levy cites evidence to argue that Jefferson was just as careless of civil liberties as a peacetime President. Angered by vicious journalistic attacks on him, he advocated "wholeseome prosecutions to restore the integrity of the presses." With Jefferson's tacit approval, a federal judge whom he had appointed secured indictments against a group of publishers and clergymen for libeling the Government. Charges were dropped only after it became clear that one of the ministers had facts and figures to back up a gamy story that the President had once attempted to seduce a friend's wife...