Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen uglier human beings," said Dr. Smith, who had already named the fish Malania artjouanae, in honor of the Prime Minister. To Dr. Smith, the fish was worth all the diamonds in South Africa. It was the end of a 15-year search...
...trailblazers of Communism, filtering across its eastern marchlands from Red-infested Viet Nam, raiding its villages, waylaying its merchants and preaching revolt in the Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied on their monarch, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk...
Next night the crowd was back, again, bigger and in an uglier mood. The 50 cops made no effort to stop teen-agers who, from well-hidden positions, tossed stones at windows in the Clark apartment...
...down merely as an eccentric. Slowly he drifted over into madness. He met a notoriously ugly woman who hid her face under a wide-brimmed floppy hat, stepped up to her, tipped up the hat brim, stared in for a moment and let it drop, saying, "Good God! Even uglier than the Queen...