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Word: poshest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court of St. James's has traditionally gone to those who could afford to supplement the U.S. embassy's presumably meager budget (currently $49,500) for entertainment and related expenses. However, Carter aides have vowed that personal wealth will not be an ambassadorial requirement in even the poshest post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENTS: The Search for Excellencies | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...poor to function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Florida, My Florida | 11/28/1973 | See Source »

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