Word: lousiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismay as the negotiators battled not to ward settlement but farther from it. Once, a union spokesman looked across at a Westinghouse official and bellowed: "You are a goddam tramp." On another occasion, I.U.E. President James Carey strode out of the room after calling Westinghouse "the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest company on the globe" Management dropped such remarks as "I'm sitting here enjoy ing the strike." At the end it was the Westinghouse team led by Vice President Robert...
...impatient with dogs and horses. Says Gussie himself: "Let's just say I was the original Peck's Bad Boy." He went to Fremont Public School in St. Louis, then tried Smith Academy, a private school. "Without doubt," says Busch, "I was the world's lousiest student. I never graduated from anything." Instead, Gussie Busch learned his lessons at the brewery, where he first went to work in 1922, just two years after Prohibition had staggered the industry...
Purpling at rumors that he plans to sell his St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, Beer (Budweiser) Baron August ("Gussie") Busch foamed: "This is the lousiest, dirtiest, meanest thing that has ever happened to me . . . Damn it, that's the biggest kick I get out of life any more-even when we have a season like this one." With the team in seventh place in the National League, Owner Busch was still aghast to consider his own fate if he were to sell it down the river: "My life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel in St. Louis...