Word: viciousness
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Infection in hospitals runs in a vicious circle. Many a patient enters because of infection, and the doctors must try not only to cure him but to keep his germs from other patients who are particularly susceptible because their resistance is low. Achieving the necessary germ-free atmosphere, though, is far easier said than done...
...quite a post-election statement, but justified in the sense that the big issue at the polls had indeed been Sukarno and his vicious guerrilla and propaganda offensives against the new Federation of Malaysia. In a lively five-week campaign, heated slogans in Malay, English, Tamil and four dialects of Chinese filled the air as candidates ran for most of Malaysia's national Parliament and state assembly seats. Charges flew that politicians were luring women voters with love potions. More serious were charges that some of the parties were playing into the hands of the Indonesians by opposing...
...claimed 200,000 lives in the country's backlands. In March, troops trapped and killed "Desquite" ("Revenge"), one of the most notorious of the bandit leaders; in the past 15 months they have erased three other bandits responsible for 1,100 murders among them. Last week the most vicious killer still at large met his death. He was Jacinto Cruz Usma, 31, alias "Sangre Negra," or "Black Blood," and regarded by the government as Public Enemy...
...unwilling to let the Turks survive on the island. To a degree, the antagonists are victims of history. Yet the world, which these days demands-and gets-fairly rational behavior from the hostile big powers, has a right to ask a modicum of reason from both sides in this vicious little squabble...
...same time, the council has been laying the foundation for a Communist dictatorship. It has decreed the death penalty for "counterrevolutionary" activity, enforces its verdicts with prison terms up to 107 years (to be followed by deportation), and vicious corporal punishment...