Word: dubiousness
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...through some primitive Indian foot surgery. But then Kinski would launch into a furniture-smashing mad scene, or Donald Sutherland would drop by, a tuft of hair sprouting from his right cheek, and the toga-party roistering would recommence. If this reception is duplicated elsewhere. Revolution could achieve a dubious immortality as the campfire classic of 1986. --By Richard Corliss
...uncouth country bumpkin with decidedly dubious scholarly credentials," as Historian Richard Fox characterizes him, was the young Reinhold Niebuhr. Over the next four decades he was to become the nation's best-known theologian and political preacher, his Teutonic scowl etched on the face of 20th century American Protestantism...
...that the young are generally more energetic than the old, although Ronald Reagan and Deng Xiaoping have rendered even that proposition somewhat dubious. But the other characteristic of youth is an absence: the absence of the memory and experience of age. "New generation" politicians, unlike a Reagan or a Mondale, have no memory of the great transforming events of this century such as the Depression, World War II or postwar reconstruction. Only the peculiar arrogance of youth can make a virtue of that vice. That vice, of course, is no fault of the young, but it is hardly a great...
...dubious distinction of paying the highest increase on record may belong to Specialty Systems Inc., a Richmond, Ind., company that specializes in removing asbestos from buildings. Insurers are so terrified of anything having to do with asbestos that they canceled Specialty's policies three times between November 1984 and last April, though the nine-year-old company has never been sued. Because customers demand proof of insurance before they will give Specialty any business, the company wound up buying a $500,000 policy from the Great American Insurance Co. of Cincinnati, on which it will pay at least...
Against Boston College and Boston University alone, they’d posted a rather dubious 1-8-1 mark since the second half of 2001, good enough only to secure consistent also-ran status in both the unofficial race for best in Boston and the all-important Beanpot...