Word: lousiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well, I'll Curl Up!" Reynolds loves adventure and publicity. In Shanghai, he created riots by giving away Reynolds pens. The expedition's plane developed engine trouble. The hailstorms mentioned in the ominous ode materialized, made flying impossible. Said Reynolds: "This may be called the lousiest, most disorganized expedition in history, but it will still be said: 'They made...
...compressed air from a portable tank, rescue men often face danger where "Boston firemen can't go in," according to one member of the staff. Workers often enter home-made gas chambers when an old-fashioned refrigerator breaks down and befumes the air, creating a problem firemen call the "lousiest...
...said to him: "Inside of two years they'll toss you out of your office window right on your face. And you'll land so hard you'll bounce." His friend had in mind the politics and pressures which swirl around "the country's second lousiest job." Colonel Charles Forbes had retired from the job in 1923 to a federal penitentiary, convicted of selling contracts. Forbes's successor, honest, penurious Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, had left with dignity but no glory...
...They had no more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest, scruffiest lot of fighters our men ever came across, compared with whom the Germans were gentlemen." The delegation was "impressed with the universal opinion of these British troops and of many others whom we consulted that, had they not been ordered into action against ELAS, there would have been...
...strode up to Dubinsky and began denouncing the anti-racketeer resolution as "the dirtiest, lousiest resolution" he had ever seen. A friend of Dubinsky started to argue. Fay swung at him. Fay friends charged, fists flew. A Dubinskyite and Fayster clinched and rolled on the floor. Dubinsky's daughter was thrown to her knees. It was minutes before the battlers were pulled apart. Browne had tactfully vanished at the start of the fray...