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Word: grossest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today--the type of thinking that, to read the school's catalogue, it is pledged to eliminate. At best, the school's decision was thoughtless, and at worst a frightening indicator of the ability of big money to legitimize even the grossest immorality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Flawed Opening | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...that "business is now on trial in the eyes of the American people."; Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan echoed that profits are "unnecessarily high."; The strongest rebuke came from George Meany, 84, president of the AFL-CIO. Said he: "This demonstrates the greed of corporations. Business is guilty of the grossest demonstration of profit-gouging since the opening days of the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Storm over Surging Profits | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today -- the type of thinking that, to read the school's catalogue, it is pledged to eliminate. At best, the school's decision was thoughtless, and at worst a frightening indicator of the ability of big money to legitimize even the grossest immorality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engelhard, Etc. | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...never forget, we had an accident--it was the grossest thing I'd ever seen in my life--a guy took a spill and cut most of his balls off with a ski pole. Patterson handled that accident like he'd been through it 30 times in his life--putting the guy back together, and talking him through the whole thing...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...bear, then watched hounds rip it apart. Explained the pack's leader: "We feel that they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed to the hoofs: "Jim, did I want those for footstools?" In the program's grossest scene, a languorous fallow deer was shot seven times at pointblank range; then a burly rifleman grasped the antlers for his mandatory macho snapshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Gunfight | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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