Word: sorriest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court, the Green Meanies came riding in, surrounded by clouds of dust and many foul odors. And The Knight of Delta Pi Epsilon, also called Brooklyn, led the pack, riding up to King Joseph himself. And this bold mass of green bellowed. "Greetings, lusty cuckold. Thou hast the sorriest bunch of knights in all the ivy land. And we, the animals from Hanover who pervert the name of chivalry and take the memory of Arthur in vain, do challenge you to a tournament...
...precedent-making area -the regulation of an area of scientific research-and I must plead that this be done with extreme care and without haste. The record of past attempts of authoritative bodies, either church or state, to control intellectual thought and work have led to some of the sorriest chapters in human history...
...greed for awards, prizes, titles: "honored personage . . . laureate . . ." In shameful pursuit of all this, people stand to attention, break off all unapproved friendships, obey all wishes of their superiors and condemn any of their colleagues if the party orders them to do so. I think even the sorriest pre-revolutionary intellectual would refuse to shake hands with the most illustrious one in Moscow today...
...misdeeds of Richard M. Nixon make his the sorriest record of any President in American history. His is not a Presidency of incompetent, unwitting error--Nixon is too smart for that. His is a Presidency of total disregard for law and order and human rights--and Watergate is only a tiny part of the dismal story...
Against this backdrop of political chicanery and racial animosity, in an atmosphere of intrigue and incompetence, the Arab terrorists committed their murderous assault on the Israeli athletes. Yet even apart from the horrifying massacre, the XX Olympiad has to rank as one of the sorriest athletic spectacles in history. True, hundreds of athletes did their human best, breaking dozens of world and Olympic records. Nonetheless, the impact of these extraordinary feats of strength, endurance and grace was marred by the chauvinistic stockpiling of team points, power politics, inept and prejudiced officiating, flagrant commercialism and oleaginous doses of carnival ballyhoo...