Word: grimiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DRESSED in old clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
Johnson could not have been of much help. All but discarding a well-written text, he launched into a country-style, tub-thumping harangue that sent away a good part of his audience before he had finished. Standing in a concrete canyon in one of the grimiest cities in America, he declared how happy he was to get away from Washington "out in this fresh, green country." He unreeled a stupefying equation purporting to show that the 9% increase in living costs since the start of the Kennedy Administration is minuscule compared to the rise in income: "You take...
...fell off a horse during a fox hunt, recalled the rich board chairman of a British appliance company, "and she went into Charing Cross for a tricky operation. They pinned her shoulder so it wouldn't go out." London's Charing Cross Hospital is one of the grimiest barracks of 3,119 hospitals run by Britain's National Health Service, and the fox-hunting wife went in as an NHS patient. Explained her husband, politically a Conservative: "In a private hospital, my wife's operation would have cost me $700, but we got it free...
Thus from Europe's grimiest coalfields and bloodiest battlefields grew the great experiment in unity. For, argued Monnet in 1955, why not expand the Coal...