Word: foulest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cans at the helmeted cops below. With neither evidence nor search warrant, they clubbed McCarthy campaign workers. One cop actually broke his billy club on a volunteer's skull. Daley stood by his angry defense of his cops' conduct against the "terrorists," who, he snarled, "use the foulest of language that you wouldn't hear in a brothel house...
...flatly withdrawn. Jones clings raptly to his privileged role as victim, and has settled for a career as blackwash expert. He modestly admits to black sexual superiority: "Most American white men are trained to be fags." Insult, in fact, is his single weapon: "The American policeman is the foulest social category in the world today." "The white man, at this point in history, is the major obstruction on the path of man's progress." His solutions are disarmingly simplistic: "When those four children were killed in the Birmingham bombing [of Sept. 15, 1963], the U.S. Steel plant in that...
...sure, he invoked the name and fame of his late predecessor. "All I have," he said quietly, "I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time. Now the ideas and ideals which he so nobly represented must and will be translated into effective action...
SOMETHING OF AN ACHIEVEMENT, by Gwyn Griffin (284 pp.; Holt; $4.95), suggests, as do a great many other contemporary British novels in this, the sahib's foulest hour, that the Pax Britannica was kept by boobs, boors and brutalitarians. British Novelist Gwyn Griffin is a onetime army officer in Africa who showed in By the North Gate (TIME, April 20, 1959), that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire...