Word: nastiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Operations, his service is again embattled, not on the high seas but in the landlocked halls of Congress and the Washington bureaucracy. Long confined inside the Pentagon and waged with confidential memos, this acrimonious fight has now burst into the open. It is perhaps the nastiest battle on the banks of the Potomac in decades. Caught squarely in the middle of it is the only Annapolis graduate ever to reach the White House, Jimmy Carter, whose budget restrictions triggered the fight but who recently told a Navy audience: "I'm still one of you." And as a key House committee...
...aboard the Empire's mobile command station, the impregnable Death Star, able to destroy whole planets with a single energy burst, and at this very moment she is being interrogated by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans of the Death Star? If those computerized blueprints reach her rebel friends, the corrupt Empire might fall-and freedom be restored to the galaxy...
...newly-elected president of the United Genes says at his inaugural address to the millions of purines and pyrimidines who have tuned in, "I will strive to unite all our genetic material from the lowest guanines to the highest cytosines so we can work together to create the meanest, nastiest, most selfish and lustful creature we have ever lived in, thereby continuing our, existence. This I promise." Thunderous applause...
...hottest movie in the U.S. right now is Survive! In three weeks it has grossed $6 million, and it may rank with the nastiest 90 minutes ever to appear on the screen...
...peevish and arbitrary ways. Still Kadushin's study should reduce some of the paranoia that frequently afflicts non-New York intellectuals. For example, the reasons that Jews account for one half of his list are historical and cultural, not part of some ethnic conspiracy. Moreover, some of the nastiest splits and squabbles in literary New York have occurred between Jews. When Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz published Making It in 1968, for example, another Jewish editor and writer, who ranks slightly lower on the list, began referring to the book as "Kike's Peak...