Word: dirtiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden of verse. Juvenile satire nourishes it. What British children did to The Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...
Adams & the Dragon. Before his death, Wolfe found time to assess the Americans who fought with the British army. They were, he said, "the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace...
...Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
...after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests for one year-the Russians had carried out at their Arctic test site a series of nuclear explosions so "dirty" that they increased the concentration of radioactive strontium 90 in the stratosphere by about 50%. They were by far the dirtiest nuclear tests since the much blamed U.S. tests in the Pacific...
...vivid writing, the sort of thing that will grab the reader by the lapels and command his attention." Last September Scott got a chance to put up or shut up; Sun Publisher Don Cromie, 43, called him in and said: "Jack, I'm about to play the dirtiest trick on you that I've ever inflicted on anyone. I'll give you $2,000 a month and the title of editorial director...