Word: dirtier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor hoodlums sweating behind the Fifth Amendment, of sordid fear, as testimony on the Chicago restaurant protection racket went into its second week. To the members of the Senate's labor-management investigating committee, it was quite clear that they had caught the scent of one of the dirtier trails in labor history...
Dirty Stockpile. Anderson's vendetta reached a new low during an NBC-TV-radio Meet the Press show in April, when he attacked the Administration's position that it needed nuclear tests to develop clean bombs. Said he: "The military is steadily stockpiling dirtier bombs and . . . they have pulled bombs out of the stockpile and inserted something in that makes them dirtier . . . They want dirty bombs, and that's the best evidence in the world of what we're trying to do. We talk clean on the one side and stockpile dirty on the other side...
...Washington, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, prestigious vice chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, accused the Administration on Meet the Press of talking about clean bombs while stockpiling dirty bombs-even "inserted something that makes them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...
...instance, the short-order cook at the "shack" in this picture, the one they all call Slob (Lee Marvin). He looks as if he never did anything more subversive than add a slice of forefinger to the chicken salad, but his name is Mr. Gregory, and his game is dirtier than his sandwich board. He steals U.S. scientists and ships them to Russia...
...Only the outside will remain the same. France's "Law on Historic Monuments" jealously prohibits tampering with the building's traditional façade; city officials refused even to let American Express sandblast its grimy exterior lest this make the nearby grimy Opéra look even dirtier...