Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic rights as a citizen, not to mention as a human being, the Warren Court outlawed school segregation, setting in motion the civil rights advances of the '50s and '60s. When no other body of Government seemed concerned that city dwellers were made second-class citizens by the grossest forms of malapportionment, the court said that one man was allowed one vote. When no one else took action against abuses of police power, the Justices launched their still controversial course of protecting the rights of those accused of crimes...
...Children's Crusade should be seen as perpetually fresh. Yet, Vonnegut suggests, most men are protectively, intentionally, numb to them. If the numbness is necessary to endure life, it also encourages the repetition of atrocities, the decking out of cruelty in self-justifying disguises-the grossest of which is the ennoblement...
...University needs a calendar only if it is fairly reliable in the accuracy of its listings, and Something Happening has earned itself a reputation for regularly producing the grossest of errors. Should its editors apply themselves energetically to dispelling that reputation, the janitor might have a bit less trash to pick off the floors on Monday mornings...
...picking an unwary tourist's wallet to the bone in no time. Along the shore, multistoried luxury hotels and condominium apartments march like see-through Stonehenge slabs from the strip's south end to Bal Harbour in the north, constituting what one appalled Northerner calls "our grossest national product...
...somewhat ironical to note that in almost no incident were the Harvard lads penalized for their pranks. Despite the grossest of local, state, and federal misdemeanors piling up against them, the Harvard name and the sanctity of its privilege would seem to show its mark in most cases. Yet, despite recent atmosphere of flippancy towards laws and rules, it would seem that a major prohibitive factor in the pranks market lies in fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich...