Word: surliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is little overt civic pride. Even Big Business is either too big, fragmented or uninterested to offer the kind of leadership it exerts in cities like Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Extraordinarily kind on occasion, New Yorkers in the mass can be the rudest, surliest, nastiest citizens of America and, with the possible exception of Paris, the world...
...Lift. Dr. Sadusk estimated that at least 8 billion amphetamine tablets are produced each year, and that no less than half of them go into illegal, nonprescription channels, for sale under the counter at bars, gas stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...
After four months of enforced hibernation, the press's surliest bear was back on the growl. From Tucson, where he holed up after Hearst's King Features syndicate fired him last summer for daring to attack the boss (he wrote that William Randolph Hearst Jr. was wanting in "character, ability or loyalty''), onetime Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. 68, let it be known that he had found a new vent for his wrath. Beginning in February, said Pegler, he will write one political column a month for American Opinion-the house organ of the John Birch Society...