Word: dirtiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such popularity is indeed deserved: syndets do the job better. They dissolve the greasiest grease and dirtiest dirt, leave no scum behind, make clothes cleaner and cutlery more coruscating. But the result of all this cleanliness is a mountain of foam. Most of it is created by the high-sudsing detergents used for household work or washing dishes in the sink. Such detergents sometimes cause foam to back up stories high in the pipes of tall apartment buildings. A high-sudsing syndet falling through a pipe from the 15th floor may enlarge itself 17,000 times by the time...
...cleanest sex humor is the dirtiest joke. Also it's the funniest. Or at least the funniest according to my definition of humor. My definition of humor is that to be really funny a joke, a story, a comic routine must make an observation on an existing situation, not the myth that we've come to know the situation by. for me the quality of the humor lies in its closeness to the core of the situation on which it is making a comment. The best humor has always had the ability to cut through the carefully constructed cliches...
...technology; countless things could go wrong. A premature explosion on earth, or too early an explosion aloft, could contaminate the atmosphere with radioactive products. All tests in the atmosphere, including last week's Soviet test, will surely raise the level of the earth's radioactivity. The dirtiest tests in the past were fission-fusion-fission bombs, the first of which, exploded by the U.S. in 1954, killed a Japanese fisherman by its fallout and seriously injured many people in the nearby Marshall Islands. When the Russians fol lowed with similar dirty tests, radiation increased all over the world...
...Abandonment here means that a majority of children say their father does not live at home. And abandonment is the insularity of inferior government services, of political impotence, of being a football in organized charity's fights with the city of Cambridge, of living in The Elms, roughest, poorest, dirtiest most hopeless blocks in the city...
FILTHY LUCRE is on its way out in France. The Bank of France, finding that banknotes are among the "dirtiest" objects known, started printing francs on a disinfectant paper "guaranteed" to make germs harmless as long as the notes are in circulation...