Word: dirtiest
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...weeks earlier Page One of the New York Times's Week in Review gave the cartoon expression of this glum sentiment: Michael Dukakis and George Bush, pint-size brats, sticking their tongues out at each other in infantile fury. The 1988 election is, by general agreement, the dirtiest and dumbest election in recent memory, maybe ever...
Tell you what I'm gonna do. They say you got eight of those hot dog stands up there in Washington. Nine ball.... That's where I'll put you to work after I win 'em tonight, You'll be the short-order cook in the dingiest and dirtiest of 'em all. On the midnight shift. Twelve ball. And after you've been workin' in there one night during the summer for about ten hours and figure it's time for you to go home for the night, I'm gonna come in and order 250 fried eggs. Fried over...
When parliamentary elections last May produced an overwhelming victory for President Corazon Aquino, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile denounced the balloting as a fraud. Calling the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history," he vowed not to take his seat in the 24-member Senate even if declared a winner...
...fraud as soon as the first projections were announced. Accusing the government of widespread cheating, Enrile called the vote a "failure" and warned that it would lead to "instability of unimaginable magnitude." At a midweek rally, while his supporters shouted "Down with Aquino!," Enrile branded the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history." Next day, at a rally of 20,000 protesters in suburban Quezon City, Enrile declared, "Let us not stop until the cheaters have been punished." Enrile, whom Aquino dismissed as Defense Minister last November after his alleged involvement in a coup plot, vowed not to take...
...Monday Chief of Staff Howard Baker and Iranscam Counselor David Abshire held an hour-long session with the President that focused on eight basic issues raised by the Tower commission report. The next morning Reagan was given what one aide called the "50 nastiest, dirtiest questions that could be dreamed up" about Iranscam. That afternoon he discussed them with Baker and Abshire...