Word: rowdiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outstretched hands. Huge, brightly colored sunflowers float above the traffic amid a profusion of plastic hummingbirds, cardinals and canaries. "Mother's Heart," an outsized paddy wagon so named "because there is always room for one more," is on standby alert-although the cops will haul away only the rowdiest of cariocas...
Lucky & the Duce. The Mafia's beginnings trace to the 11th century, when the conquering Norman Count Roger I swept in, parceled out the island's hilly uplands to his barons, who in turn enlisted the rowdiest ruffians around into gangs of guards. No one really knows what "Mafia" means, but by the last century all Sicily knew what the Mafia was: a randy band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid...
...Until well after World War I, the Southern Baptist trademark seemed to be high-decibel evangelism and opposition to the Pope, Darwin, smoking, dancing and drinking. Between the enactment of Prohibition and the 1928 defeat of Al Smith, Southern Baptism went through some of its rowdiest moments. Some memorably colorful but questionable leaders appeared -and in a denomination without central authority, where each church has complete local autonomy, no one could say whether or not they spoke for Southern Baptism. There was, for instance, J. Frank Norris, a Fort Worth Baptist preacher ("the Texas tornado"), who killed a political...
Last week the Commons' rowdiest squall yet burst over Bomarc when word came from Washington that the U.S. Air Force, worried that Bomarc's test failures would delay its operational status until too near the end of the diminishing bomber era, proposed a sweeping switch in spending to other defensive hardware (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the past, Diefenbaker had properly insisted that all Bomarc's failures were minor "nickel-and-dime" malfunctions, and pointed out that the U.S. was spending $500 million on it this year, while Canada had committed only $15 million for work...