Word: dirtiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirtiest word in the world's coldly competitive steel business is "dumping"-the calculated practice of selling for less abroad than at home. While raising their own domestic prices last week, U.S. steelmakers grumbled bitterly that cut-price European and Japanese competitors are dumping steel on the U.S. market. In a thumb-in-the-eye brawl that is becoming global, the Europeans also accuse the Japanese of dumping steel in the Common Market. The Europeans have quietly made a cartel-like agreement to set prices of exports and carve up world markets-but so have the Japanese. Last week...
...like it or not, the young lady drops herself into the chair as though she were dropping a dead mouse into the garbage. Then she stares at her egg as though it had hair on it. Finally she favors the cook with what is surely one of the dirtiest looks ever looked. On her, it looks hilarious. Imagine a crocodile wearing a pinafore...
Where did that idea and order originate, and why was the dirtiest doublecross in the whole history of civilization so censored? It seems to me that the answer to these questions is an urgently important part of the reporting of the event, otherwise so capably handled...
...Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
...Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial violence popped out like the pox: night riders prowled the state, there were shotgun incidents in Dallas, Leesburg and Dawson, and two Negro churches were burned to the ground...