Word: rankest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown by the license figures, which have increased about 7% annually, and are expected to hit 18 million this year. This has meant a bonanza for tackle manufacturers, whose sales last year came to $110 million. Some postwar trends: nylon lines, Plexiglas rods, and spinning reels which enable the rankest amateur to cast without backlashes...
Gould himself admitted he had paid the price (up to $3 a lb.), and was grateful for what he got, whether it was new (Gould's ceiling price: 59? to 63? a Ib.) or "the rankest nondescript scrap." Gould identified the sellers as Benjamin S. Flug and Robert Corey, a pair of Brooklyn jobbers doing business under the name of Flurey Products Corp. Said he: Flurey Corp. disguised new nickel electroplating anodes as scrap ones (which are subject to more flexible ceilings), and sold them at many times their proper ceiling price...
Snorted Stanley Dollar: "The rankest pettifogging I ever saw . . ." He filed suit in federal district court, charging President Killion & Co. with contempt of court, and it looked as if the fight would go on for months...