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Word: grossness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well-meaning defenders of Jimmy Carter have begun to say that we are making sacrificial figures of our Presidents, that we have "destroyed" Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and that we should be careful not to do the same to Carter. That is a gross oversimplification. Two very different calamities befell the two earlier Presidents; Johnson was swept aside by a deep historic groundswell against the Viet Nam War, while Nixon was engulfed by a series of misdeeds and deceptions of his own making. If Carter fails to assert stronger leadership, and to project a sense and a pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Are We Destroying Jimmy Carter? | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...does not defend his constitutional battle to save them from scrutiny, a major legal question, with much passion. Nor does he depict his progress towards impeachment with anything much beyond a description of eroding congressional support, as if it were a doomed legislative proposal and not an investigation of gross misconduct. He occasionally states calmly, as if it were natural, that he became convinced at various times that various people were "out to get him." That is all. There is something Speer-like in this blank recitation of his role by the major participant in a crisis that at once...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: Talking Head: '74 | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...doubles--Gross and Meister (P) def. Pompan and G. Kirsch...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Princeton Racquetmen Sock It to Crimson, 7-2 | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

Pompan looked to be on the verge of winning when he broke the massive Tiger's serve at two-all in the third. But Gross suddenly exploded, and he had his power game clicking so well that Pompan could do little else but fight it out to the end. Princeton, suddenly, was in control...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Princeton Racquetmen Sock It to Crimson, 7-2 | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

...where Brightfield and Zimmerman came back from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to defeat Shaw and a by-then suffering Walker, 4-and-5. At third doubles, Pompan and Greg Kirsch choked away a first-set tiebreaker, 5-3, and went on to lose to Gross and Meister...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Princeton Racquetmen Sock It to Crimson, 7-2 | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

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