Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 16 starters, the Derby would be worth $164,000, of which $125,000 goes to winner, $25,000 to second, $12,500 to third, and $5000 to fourth. Each with drawal between now and 45 minutes before post time would reduce the gross value and winner's share...
...could be plucked from trees and the sea, he exhausted funds on potatoes, canned asparagus and claret imported from France. Nearly all of the native-language titles affixed to his paintings betray his ignorance of the tongue. He learned little of the native myths, committing to canvas misconstructions so gross that Tahitians would have laughed if they had understood them. To the end of his days, he painted human figures on the guideline checkerboards, like graph paper, that steady the novice's uncertain hand...
Normally, the news that the U.S. economy scored its biggest spurt in 15 years would be cause for rejoicing. Now, nothing is normal, and last week's report that the gross national product jumped $16.9 billion in the year's first quarter, to a record annual rate of $714 billion, gave Washington's economy watchers an acute case of the jitters. It heightened fears that the economy is inflating too fast and that President Johnson may have to hike taxes to slow things down...
...reckoning of the late Lucius Beebe, who finished this gossipy and amusing book shortly before he died in February at 63, Brady was a gross arriviste, strictly a spender without class. Himself a relentless connoisseur, a professional dandy, and perhaps the best known boulevardier of his time, Social Chronicler Beebe held that the true test of spenders of distinction was not necessarily how they rid themselves of substantial sums of money but rather how closely they subscribed to the dictum of the late Gene Fowler: "Money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains." As an example...
World War I Ace Max Immelmann earned two, as did Corporal Adolf Hitler, and now U.S. teen-agers are buying them by the gross. Dug out of attics and curio shops and freshly minted by the thousands, the German Iron Cross has become the newest surfer's emblem and high school...