Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convulsive Surge. The U.S. remains in the grip of the greatest construction boom in history, and the topping off is not in sight. Since World War II, building has become the nation's second largest industry (food production is first). It has accounted for about 10% of the gross national product, created new structures valued at $1 trillion?and that's a 13-figure number. In the past decade, Houston, for instance, has packed 17 major new structures into a 20-square-block area. Los Angeles has overcome its earthquake fears and built 107 high-rise office buildings. Denver...
...only two native Americans on the U.S. team were Raymond Severn, a Southern California insurance salesman, and his brother Winston. The other "Yank" cricketers were all foreign-born, hailing from more logical places like Ireland, Barbados, Australia and Ceylon. Warned London's Evening News: "It would be a gross understatement to say they know something of the game." Indeed, in their first three matches, the Americans looked impressive. They outscored the Duke of Norfolk's team 178-117 before time ran out (thereby making the match officially a draw), lost by only 15 runs to a squad called...
...reign in 1509 as a handsome, strapping 17-year-old, seemingly the perfect embodiment of the chivalric tradition. A superb sportsman and a gifted musician, he also could hold his own intellectually in company with those lights of Renaissance humanism, Erasmus and Thomas More. Yet he grew into a gross, willful creature not so far removed from the modern layman's view of him, which seems to be based mainly on Charles Laughton's famous roaring, slobbering portrayal in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII. He gorged himself at seven-hour banquets, eventually became...
...only point of reference, as the fixed center of consciousness. Looking with Enderby's eyes we are forced to abandon the old philosophical principle of the duality of good and evil. We find a new duality, an immediate polarity between body -- including brain -- and non-body, between the gross private tyranny of the coarse machine Enderby must serve every minute of his life and the hard bright indifference of that panorama of people and places outside. Ranged against each other, equally complex, equally demanding masters, the two forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them...
Katz and his band "The Gross National Product" used the cab around Ithaca, New York during the winter. In June he decided that he wanted to sell...