Word: dirtiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard official enthusiastically replied to Professor Hobbs that 'the Army team was the dirtiest' he had seen in the 22 years he had been playing and officiating Harvard football...
...other hand, the Stanford players which this writers talked to all considered the 1948 Army-Stanford game the dirtiest contest they had ever been in, and one implied that Emery Mitchell, start fullback and the team's best passer, had been deliberately crippled in the first quarter of that game...
...relatively prosperous Barcelona section, are virtually non-existent, partly because of Spain's low productivity, and partly because of few favorable trade agreements; mechanical equipment such as tractors is for the far-distant future. Railroad stock, built before the 1936 Civil War, is worn out: trains are the slowest, dirtiest, most uncomfortable in Europe...
...couple of decades. The tired old plot is in no way improved by Joan's new hairdo, which is blonde and unbecoming. Sydney Greenstreet, with his lashless, inscrutable stare, is no whit different from what he has been in a dozen similar roles. As usual, he gets the dirtiest end of the dialogue. Sample, as Joan pulls a gun on him: "I should have spit you out the first time you lit between my teeth...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, got off an angry piece which lashed at "some of the guttersnipes who cover the saloon beat and never bring in any news but write free advertising about some of the dirtiest criminals out of prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...