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Word: rowdiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grain, and invented gaudy lies to pad out the occasional dull spots (an early dust-jacket blurb had him dancing on a Mississippi riverboat). Author Clarke, a TIME contributor, sorts out the nonsense, the brilliance and the bitchiness of Capote's life in what is the liveliest and rowdiest literary biography in recent memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Troubles of the Tiny Terror CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...Congressman Steven Symms, but also from combative conservatives who have formed an organization called ABC-Anyone but Church. Amid Idaho's piny woods and parched plains, where voters peer skeptically out from under their cowboy hats and pop questions like gunshots, the candidates are waging one of the rowdiest, most name-calling campaigns in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Rowdy Campaign of Personalities | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Demoted several places in his class rank for disorderly drinking shortly after he moved into Massachusetts Hall, Hancock was among the rowdiest at the College. Fowler's theory that the "intellectual crosswinds" Hancock encountered at Harvard engendered his later liberalism is questionable. Those same crosswinds haven't deterred many others from the allure of financial security and conservatism...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: The Man Behind the Signature | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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