Word: dirtiest
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...play's lyricism and innocence, it is at the same time one of the dirtiest in its diction. It teems with smutty puns that would get the work banned by highschool teachers and boards of education if these folks were really up on their Elizabethan lingo. The bulk of the bawdry issues from the mouths of Mercutio and the Nurse, who are the foils to Romeo and Friar Laurence. Kahn has a lot of the phallic and other ribaldry indicated through gesture or mime...
...been employed at the plant for a shorter period; in many cases he loses part of his paycheck as well. Although the same rules apply to whites, blacks contend that the burden has fallen unfairly on them because racist hiring practices have lumped them in the industry's dirtiest, hottest jobs, from which the promotion lines go only a short...
...shifts. Governor Robert Ray has asked the University of Iowa and all large businesses in the state to switch back to burning highly polluting No. 5 or No. 6 fuel oil in order to stretch supplies of low-polluting No. 2 oil needed to heat Iowa homes. Coal, the dirtiest heating source, is plentiful in the Midwest, but most homes and houses have shifted to cleaner fuels and are not equipped to burn...
...Governor Russell W. Peterson was concerned enough about his state's relatively clean shores to promote and sign into law last June a bill that prohibits heavy industry from locating new plants along the coastline. Fed up with New Jersey's polluted shores, which are among the dirtiest in the nation, Governor William Cahill last June signed a law that requires the dumping of sewage sludge and industrial wastes at least 100 miles...
...tankers. Jurong Industrial Estate contains 275 plants that turn out everything from ships to toothbrushes. Another 112 factories are planned or under construction. But despite such dire pollution indicators, Singapore is a breath of fresh air in the miasma of Asian cities, some of which are among the dirtiest on earth...