Word: grubbiest
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...walk down the street and wonder why peoplewho do the grubbiest work get paid the least," Boksaid...
...Lakota (S. Dak.) Times, runs a story every other year to commemorate the anniversary of the day Kennedy visited the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. "It was almost as if a saint had come and was reaching his hand to the people," he says. "He went to the grubbiest children and hugged and kissed them." But Bobby was, of course, much more complicated than the myth will allow, more flawed and human...
...sure, these 33 hours or so of recorded talks are a minuscule fraction of Richard Nixon's presidential conversations?and, one can only hope, the grubbiest fraction. The transcripts might not necessarily be representative of the way he always conducts business; the language and tone may be loftier and more dignified when he confers with, say, Henry Kissinger or other officials. Despite the indecipherable passages and inelegant language, however, the transcripts yield an absorbing insight into the inner workings of Nixon's White House and of the President's mind. Some noteworthy examples follow...
...There I was, mushing around in the Central Highlands counting Viet Cong dead," said the paratroop captain. "I was the grubbiest man alive. Bad. Really bad. After two days of no sleep I went back to camp and sacked out on an air mattress in the mud." Then came a voice telling him to get up and go to Saigon to take care of Miss America. Not bad for a dream. Even better as the real McCoy. So U.S. Army Captain Frank Lennon, 25, a West Pointer and a gentleman, scraped off the mud and flew to Saigon...
...Marvelous & Grimy. As the verminous tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (TIME, Oct. 13), Donald Pleasence, 41, succeeds in creating probably the grubbiest creature who has ever been seen on Broadway, beside whom the average Bowery bum would seem like the twin of Mr. Clean. For all the brilliance of the playwright, The Caretaker would collapse onstage without an actor who could make the old man both repulsive and sympathetic. Like Scofield, Pleasence got his early experience in Birmingham. Enormously popular on British television, he has wide and proven capabilities as a character actor and in leading roles...