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Word: foulest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native country and contrast it to Maine. The old lady lives sur rounded by tacky reproductions of Dutch scenes and execrable examples of porcelain. Her brother briefly thinks that she may have killed her husband but concludes that he is overinfluenced by the fact that her meals constitute the foulest kind of home cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chiller | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...occurred after her mother's death when she was 13, her second after her father's death nine years later. Her grief was maniacal. She found the act of eating obscene. Worst of all, she heard "horrible voices," among them "King Edward VII lurking in the azaleas using the foulest possible language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V. - Virginial Woolf: A Biography | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...entertainment for fear of some impending exam. Knowing the names of the characters does not really help, since their natures change with bewildering rapidity. Click: here is Messalina gamely struggling to protect her virginity from Caligula. Presto: here is Messalina, Empress to Claudius, cuckolding him wholesale in the foulest brothels of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The View from London | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...Your article on the New Genetics is by far the foulest thing I have ever read. That these "scientists" should toy with problems of such universal and profound significance shows only that our educational system is an abominable failure, turning out unnatural, immoral and monstrous specimens of humanity. Are these creatures now to change our lives in the name of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1971 | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...just out of rage but out of utter contempt that I berated your marshmallow revolutionaries in the foulest terms I could. I was ready for any consequences but obviously, despite their numbers, they were only putting on a show in the hope that we on the podium would melt in fear. They were wrong because unlike some campus revolutionaries who hide out at Harvard we come from the real world. Another alternative would have been to engage us in meaningful dialogue, but of course, that's too bourgeois for these brave vanguard marshmallow revolutionaries...

Author: By Southeast Asia, National STUDENT Coordinating, Eastern Secretary, and Daniel E. Teodoru, S | Title: The Mail 'MARSHMALLOW REVOLUTION ARIES' | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

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