Word: gruffest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the armed forces' public information setup. Though some think it the best possible under the circumstances, the Reporter's Denis Warner, 48, a veteran of every Far Eastern fracas since World War II, says, "It is the worst I have known in any war anywhere." Gruffest of the growling pack is Joe Fried of the New York Daily News. "I think we get very poor service here from the authorities," he says. In the daily military briefings, known as "the 5 o'clock follies," the abrasive Fried stokes his fire and brimstone...
...full-lipped Flagg Girls looked out from the pages of every big-circulation magazine. He earned $75.000 a year from Flagg Girls and celebrity portraits, spent it freely in hard-drinking high life. Besides being the country's most famous illustrator and most conspicuous bohemian. he was its gruffest voicer of strong opinions. "I know why there are so many pretty gals in New York," he once said, "all the ugly ones are in college." He dismissed Picasso's work as "kin to the nasty scrawls chalked on alley walls by underprivileged Mongolian monster boys...