Word: foulest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Step by painful step, pilots are learning how to land their aircraft in the foulest weather. Latest step: Hitching electronic landing systems to the automatic pilot, known to service pilots as "George...
...foulest piece of journalism perpetrated in [Britain] for many a long year-and that is certainly saying something . . ." The caustic editorialist was Michael Foot, 37, wiry, wily Laborite M.P., co-editor of the Socialist weekly Tribune (circ. 20,000) and onetime acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard. What had roused Foot's wrath was the way the Standard (circ. 871,000) had handled John Strachey's appointment as Secretary of State for War (TIME, March...
...grandmother was a Bulloch from Georgia,' she wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...