Word: viciousness
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HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a vicious kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa coolly demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...
...alltime record. Now he was shooting for a new record and another entry to add to the eleven marks he already holds. Suddenly everything got much tougher. As a matter of pride, rival defensemen double teamed him, jabbed him with sticks and elbows, smashed him to the ice with vicious body checks...
Princeton opened up with rugged play that kept the ball dangerously close to the Crimson goal all through the first period. Without fouling, the Tigers managed to power their way to almost every head and trap. Princeton's Nigerian fullback Omats Omatete lived up to pre-game billing: his vicious boots cleared the ball more than half the length of the field...
Instead of reading only the first and last chapters of my book, he has indeed read the section on The American Scene. He has quoted my verdict on this book as being "James's most vicious book at its core" quite accurately...
...often funny. The condition of the Royal Air Force was so pathetic at the start of the war, for instance, that four small bombers failed miserably in dropping leaflets over Germany--two crashed and two returned home with their crews either frozen or incoherent. Unfortunately the style is also vicious and one-sided. On page after page, the authors repeat that there "was no substitute for singleminded action and efficient planning," that Britain was ruled by a group of "decayed serving men," or that the appeasers lived in "treachery and dishonor...