Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only gross defensive error of the game, Bob Thompson missed the ball for the Crimson while trying to settle it. The ball rolled behing him to Cardinal forward Rich Sloss, who scored by shooting the ball past Ben Bryant on the left side of the goal. Though the ball passed one to two ft. beside Bryant it was hit so hard from only 8 to 10 ft. away that Bryant did not even have time to react...
Covert assistance went beyond help for the democratic opposition. The CIA infiltrated Chilean agents into the upper echelon of the Socialist Party. Provocateurs were paid to make deliberate mistakes in their jobs, thus adding to Allende's gross mismanagement of the economy. CIA agents organized street demonstrations against government policies...
...evaders and deserters to earn their way back into U.S. society, he termed it "an act of mercy to bind the nation's wounds and to heal the scars of divisiveness." But the wounds bled anew. Leaders of veterans' organizations immediately denounced the plan as "a gross injustice" to those who had served, died, and suffered. Members of war resisters' groups assailed it as a "punitive" assault upon men who had been guilty only of "premature morality." Yet Ford's plan, an extremely complex attempt to resolve a national dilemma, doubtless reflected the middle position...
...Gross Abuse. In adoptions, decrees should be final and unconditional, except in cases of gross neglect or abuse. From the child's point of view, the authors argue, a struggle between natural and adoptive parents is not a dilemma; his "real" parents are the ones who raised him. The authors also insist on quick disposition of cases, since delays are disruptively long in terms of a child's sense of time...
...that "there were two unfailing characteristics which defined the work of [DAS] teams: 1) each client nation was headed by a non-Communist government which remained open and often friendly to American capital investment and 2) in each field project the overwhelming priority was to raise that nation's Gross National Project without as much thought or attention to the social effects of growth or the basic fairness of that country's political economic structure." Such arguments were typical of the articulate brand of criticism to which the DAS was subject. But such judgments are probably no longer accurate...