Word: grossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arthur Gross calls himself a "nationally renowned neo-Pop artist." What he does, in plain English, is sell trash. Not just any trash, to be sure. Gross, 23, rifles through the garbage cans of Beverly Hills, ferreting out such choice items as receipts from Cartier or cocktail napkins from the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge. He then packages the debris in a clear plastic bag, slaps on a pink and green Beverly Hills Trash label and charges $5 for each bag-cum-artwork...
...students, saying she did not pose a risk to the children's safety. She was later barred from the campus but continues to collect her paychecks and to assist a substitute teacher with lesson plans. Many San Diegans, angered by the way Rogers was treated, accused the school of gross ingratitude and cowardice. Others argued that Rogers should stay away for the safety of the students. Said Jean Andrews, a political consultant and the mother of one of Rogers' former pupils: "I don't think children's bodies are the appropriate weapons to be used on a frontline offensive against...
...having a medicinal rhizome, and R. Rhaponticum, having edible leafstalks. (No, that's not it.) 2. the rhizome of any medicinal species of this plant, forming a combined cathartic and astringent. (That ain't it, either.) 3. the edible fleshy leafstalks of any of the garden species. (That's gross) 4. U.S. Slang. a quarrel or a squabble. (Bingo...
...parents are wealthy enough not to need financial aid, one can go right on to college from high school. But if one is not so fortunate as to be born to a well-off family, one will have no choice but to enter the "Citizens Corps." The gross unfairness of that situation is itself a damning criticism of the bill: how can we as a democratic nation take seriously a policy that explicitly exempts the rich from requirements made of the citizenry...
Last week Ciparick ruled that Conner's catamaran had created a "gross mismatch." The decision gave the America's Cup to New Zealand, which will host the next competition in 1991, and torpedoed San Diego's hopes for a $1.2 billion bonanza during the six-month competition. Conner, ironically, was in New Zealand last week filming a commercial for a new board game called Cup Fever. "I'm a sailor," he declared. "It offends me to see attorneys debating America's Cups in the courts. The Cup should be fought on the water." Amen...