Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this showing, one must regret that Pier Luigi Nervi, Italy's great engineer-architect, was not included in the show. His accomplishments are surely more significant than those of Wallace K. Harrison, who exhibits buildings for Alcoa that seem to have been designed for the sole purpose of discovering uglier and uglier ways of using aluminum. If Harrison's experiments turned out to be disastrous failures, those brave new forms at Ronchamp and Bear Run resulted in magnificent accomplishments. It is achievements such as these which have given our century the most exciting buildings since the Renaissance...
Leonard continued to stall and the talk got uglier. Blinky visited Leonard in Los Angeles, accompanied by a couple of tough-looking hoodlums with police records who lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You'll never know what hit you"). He testified that Carbo called too. said "something to the effect that 'You're going to get hurt. We're going to make an example of you.' " After the hearing, police were assigned to guard Leonard whenever he left...
Unfortunately, the contest was also distinguished in a different and uglier way. It is necessary to say here that The Lampoon put on a brutish display of calculated poor sportsmanship. Even the 'Poon's most hardened critics were appalled at her vicious effort to avoid defeat...
...luckless Lebanon, it showed signs of turning into an uglier situation than the one the U.S. went in to reverse. This time it is the Christian half of the populace, rallying closer to former President Camille Chamoun than they did when he was in office, who are the rebels. Chamoun now excoriates the U.S. for endorsing a regime that contains only his enemies. Just as Chamoun swung too Westward for Lebanon's Moslems to stomach, now the rebelled Cabinet swings too far toward Nasser for Chamoun and the Christians to tolerate...
...sensationalism in an attempt to smear the trade-union movement." Like Pipe Fitter McNamara, Plumber Meany pointed out that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has kicked out the Teamsters and a couple of other corrupt unions. Neither mentioned that organized labor allowed its ugly situation to grow uglier for years-until the McClellan committee came along...