Word: nastiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father's ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle, Penn Phillips was taught about the value of land. Says he: "The nastiest thing my mother ever said about anybody was, 'They're just renters.' " He gave up a chance at college to go into business, became a real estate man during the Florida land boom, moved to California in 1921, where he built up a stake selling lots. His biggest successes came after World War II, when he recognized that the logical outlet for California's pressing population was the desert...
...Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene of all: Photographer James Simon found a colony of lemmings (mouselike rodents that breed prolifically) swarming in panic because of famine, filmed them...
...think this is the nastiest business in the world," says Elizabeth Arden...
Author Rowse finds it hard to understand why satirists such as Swift and Pope fired some of their nastiest arrows at the glittering Marlboroughs. He bridles at the refusal of most Britons (which persists to this day) to regard the mighty pair with proper awe and admiration. To have boundless ambition, to become fabulous millionaires, to seize the power behind the throne coldly and calculatingly-these, as Rowse sees them, are not only natural characteristics in great men and women, but a small price to pay for national greatness and security. Be that as it may, the Marlboroughs...
...longest and nastiest major U.S. industrial dispute in two decades came to an end last week. From both the 44,000 International Electrical Workers and Westinghouse, who had battled for 156 days, came boasts of triumph. Actually, both had lost. The union dropped its insistence on a one-year contract and gave Westinghouse the five-year agreement it demanded to make itself competitive with General Electric, which has a similar contract. But the union can reopen the contract and strike for wage increases after one year...