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Word: crummiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Millses represent an unbroken working-class line fated to perform the world's crummiest jobs. "I would take my place behind the horses . . . I'm into traffic," says one laborer shyly. Before settling down to shovel manure, George I takes a wrong turn on his way to the Crusades and does a stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birth of the Blue-Collar Blues | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

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