Word: viciousness
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Clement Fowler and William Redfield made me understand for the first time how Hamlet can without any concern order Rosencrantz and Guildenstern killed. They are ingratiating, flattering, effeminate, but vicious; when Hamlet kills Polonius and leaves himself exposed, they turn on him almost snarling as they order him before the king...
...hard for Social Darwinism. Wrote Jack London, the friend of the masses: "Socialism is devised so as to give more strength to these certain kindred favored races so that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed...
Clay opened Round Three with a damaging flurry of punches which opened a deep gash under the champ's left eye. Fully aroused by Clay's audacity and perhaps remembering that this was the round he had chosen for the KO, Liston tore fato Clay with a vicious array of blows. Sonny landed a left and a right to the body, a hard left to the jaw and followed this with a rare right uppercut. The third round was the only one in which Liston displayed the lethal effectiveness of his Patterson triumphs. That he did not lay Cassius...
...Kleitman has heard it from a man who had just been observed sleeping soundly for seven hours.) The most that these hard-headed doctors will concede is that anxiety about not getting to sleep is itself upsetting, and they will prescribe just a few hypnotics to break a vicious cycle. But most doctors prescribe sleeping pills as freely as aspirin...
...expedition which traversed a route similar to the one taken by the Syracuse party. The Club, aided by excellent weather conditions, covered the ground in only three day's Only one other group before them was able to do it in this time. Presently, however, high winds, a vicious blizzard, zero visibility, and an extremely heavy ice pack which blankets the upper half of the White Mountains are hampering the search effort, which involves an estimated 50 searchers...