Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wobbly way through the scrub, stubble and sand of Florida's Cape Canaveral comes a creature from the ages. The armadillo, his precision-made armor plate intermeshing fluidly, moseys along, oblivious of time. Skittering across his path is another anachronism, the beady-eyed, evil-looking horned lizard, uglier than the sum of the menacing spikes that jut from his body. On trundles the armadillo, scarcely noticing a wide hole in the ground. From the hole run two telephone lines; a few feet away, they connect to a pair of phones lying in a ditch. The armadillo scratches ahead...
...town's mood grew uglier, and Brann began carrying a pistol. Late one April afternoon, as he walked down the street, a man named Tom Davis, who had a daughter at Baylor, whipped out a pistol and shot Brann in the back "right where the suspenders crossed." The editor whirled and fired again and again while Davis pumped two more bullets into him. Within hours, though he took his killer with him, Brann was dead...
Concluded Reporter Hartman: "So if the 1958 fashions bring us lovelier women inside of uglier clothes, perhaps it will be everyone's gain...
...Noyes: "We park it outdoors, but if the cars get any uglier, I may have to build a garage...
About that cover of Premier Nasser: I must say that he has grown a lot uglier since your last cover [Sept. 26, 1955]. The trouble with you people is that sometimes you discover the ugliness in some characters a damn sight too late...