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Word: dirtier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although a number of the 86 finalists were women, none won awards. Asimov felt confirmed in his thesis concerning women and limericks. "Women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men," he says. "I don't know why, but they can be surprisingly vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Rich Orgy of Witty Ditties | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...anywhere from 15% to 40% to the construction and operating costs of a coal-fired plant. Yet no matter how much money is spent, a study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare warns, burning coal on the scale that Carter contemplates will make the air dirtier. HEW officials think the danger can be kept to a minimum by strict adherence to federal clean-air, safety and waste-disposal standards, but concern persists-with reason. Reacting to it, Washington is virtually certain to require all coal-burning plants, even those that burn low-sulfur Western coal, to install "scrubbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Coal's Clouded Post-Strike Future | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard to the ever-growing list of American universities that agreed to do some of the dirtier work handled by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). University officials disclosed earlier this week that CIA financial records showed Harvard involvement in two research projects conducted under the agency's MK-ULTRA human behavior control project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CIA Test Tube | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

Since then, dams have tapped it, highways pushed out into it, buildings jutted out onto it, but the Charles River has remained the same-only a lot dirtier...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Watching the River Flow | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...British troops in the Crimea. Playing between the parlors of the rich and the Dickensian dens of the criminal underworld, the aristocratic thief outwits crushers (cops), noses (informers) and Establishment nibs to assemble the four keys needed to grab the gold. By subversion, bribery and tricks far dirtier than the king's men ever dreamed of, the ringleader and his scruffy accomplices come within a sniff of the swag, only to meet their greatest obstacle: an obscure law of physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crushers and Subgumshoes | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

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