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Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.
At the beginning of the decade, Fukuyama put forward his famous thesis about how we were at the End of History, only to see History seem to resume with a vengeance, as you put it the other day.
At such times, they turned with a vengeance to nicknames.
Graves writes that she became the embodiment of "divine vengeance on proud kings."
(It's important, however pedantic it may sound, to keep stressing that only "some" or "a few" partook of such vengeance, since even choosing to discuss these acts--and not the vastly more extensive crimes that preceded them--threatens to distort history.)