Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domineering and obsessed with sex; her stepfather was a sponging promoter of fake gold mines. Jean's second husband, Producer Paul Bern, shot himself two months after the wedding. She could not act, but her platinum hair, husky voice, and refusal to wear a brassiere were enough to gross millions at the box office for Howard Hughes and Louis B. Mayer. She died in 1937, age 26, of a kidney infection, leaving less than...
...challenge Professor Harris' assertion that the average physician's income has crept up to "a current national average of $25,000 or more" [June 12]. For my colleagues' sake I could wish it were true, but I wonder if the professor has mixed up gross income with net income. Physicians in private practice have to pay office secretaries, nurses, rent, etc., often up to as much as 40% of their gross income...
...Professor Harris wrote that costs as a percentage of gross income have declined from 40% in 1929 to 37%, leaving physicians in private practice with an average net income of $25,000 a year...
...made a profession of loyalty to him. Then, as hundreds of priests watched, Du Bay kissed the cardinal's hands and withdrew. A week earlier, Father Du Bay had publicly petitioned the Pope to remove Mclntyre as Archbishop of Los Angeles, charging the cardinal with "gross malfeasance in office" for what he called his superior's failure to condemn racism as a moral evil...
Worldly, urbane and versatile, the top economists are first-class customers of the international airlines, often jetting across the oceans a dozen times a year. Fluent in several languages, they are self-confident in discussing the great painters, gourmet restaurants and gross national products of many countries. They tramp the African bush and they savor champagne at diplomatic receptions, where they advise chiefs of state to start new plants or shut down old ones, to expand or contract imports, to invite or restrict foreign capital. The Presidents and Ministers are receptive to the advice, partly because many of them have...