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Word: foulest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foul, inly foul, yea foulest upon earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Mayor of London. It is one of those rich character parts that Kilty has made his specialty. The role further contains what is perhaps the largest repertory of oaths and insults ever assembled (mostly hurled at the cobbler's poor wife); Kilty manages to make them sound like the foulest words in the language (in fact some of them...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Shoemaker's Holiday | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

...simple as that." This was certainly plain speaking. Eden went farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO base on Greek soil should suffice for our needs. This is not so." There might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: As Simple as That | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...says. He is keeping his program limited in the hope that, unlike earlier and more grandiose schemes for abolishing the favelas, it can be carried out. His three-part plan: 1) stop the growth of favelas by preventing construction of new shacks; 2) destroy the few flatland favelas, the foulest of all because the sewage in the open ditches does not run off; 3) "civilize" the hillside favelas by providing them with police protection, free medical services, schools, electricity, sewers and running water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Human Anthills | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...citizens pumped, paddled, dug, abandoned their automobiles, froze, chased their hats, lit candles, ran for their lives and occasionally died as some of the foulest weather in history swept the nation from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Trouble from the Sky | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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