Word: sordidness
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...modern American cities is to want to escape them. The parks are certainly escapes from intolerable congestion and pollution. In a way, skyscrapers are a kind of escape themselves, an effort to get out from the bottom of the canyon, to escape into the sky away from the sordid misery below...
...TIME completely misrepresents my position on the connection between the union election and the Yablonski murders [Jan. 19]. What I actually stated was that I was "convinced that the top leaders of the U.M.W.A. did not direct the brutal murders, but the sordid record of the union, the venom they spread during the campaign, and the possible fear of some lower union officials that Mr. Yablonski might report illegal activities, all contributed to this pattern which led to this heinous crime...
...affront to British maidenhood. "A British girl," he thundered, "is perfectly capable of making her own dates-and so are American men." The Sunday Times chided: "There are visions of the flower of English womanhood being sold into lusty American servitude for the benefit of our sordid balance of payments. Poor old BOAC cannot win." Nonetheless, the airline fought on. "We're only offering them dates," spokesmen insisted, "not promising marriage...
...bannered, JERKED TO JESUS. Armed with phony search warrants, police badges and wiretapping devices, reporters got the story one way or the other-usually the other. They climbed through windows to steal the diaries of murdered mistresses, kidnaped suspects to get exclusive interviews, and planted clues to sustain a sordid rape story for another...
...uninhibited Midwesterner from a solid middle-class family, the girl chooses her professional name, Siam Miami, for its exotic, Oriental and slightly Jewish flavor. But she cannot choose the track she runs on or the sordid crew of middlemen and managers who exploit her. Chief among them is Stewart Dodge, who has 50% of Siam's contract. He also has had her body, and is bent on taking over her soul. In an odd struggle, he almost destroys his singer and nearly ruins his own empire in order to revenge himself upon the one thing he lacks the power...