Word: ugliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buses began their first runs, a few whites tried to block them with their cars. But police quickly cleared the way. Later in the day there were other disruptions, including a march by 1,000 antibusing demonstrators in downtown Louisville and some bomb threats at newly integrated schools. The ugliest incident occurred in the afternoon, when 150 whites gathered outside Fairdale High School; many demonstrators parked their cars on the narrow two-way street leading to the school, preventing the eight buses filled with black students from leaving. The screaming crowd threw cups and empty soft-drink cans...
...sign warning off all trespassers not on foot. From a parked green Capri, the two flat-landers later seen by the source stared at us in a not altogether pleasant manner, and they were big and ugly and smelt sort of funny so I gave the biggest and ugliest of them--a bulging, pale fish-eyed creature with sweated-back hair and a dim-witted, monotone voice--a warm beer. He smiled...
...Daddy is a murderous and perhaps mentally unbalanced bully whose reign of terror, according to one study by the International Commission of Jurists, has led to the deaths of anywhere from 25,000 to 250,000 Ugandans (out of a population of 11 million). One of Amin's ugliest characteristics is his tendency to use human beings as political pawns, as in the case of a British author named Denis Cecil Hills, who is scheduled to be executed by a Ugandan firing squad this week...
...Ugliest Epithet. Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary...
...moment when he learned how to act for a camera and there are all sorts of great stories about the filming of the movie. Sam Goldwyn almost fired him three times because he insisted on putting so much make-up on that he was unrecognizeable. "He's the ugliest actor I've ever seen!" Goldwyn screamed at the director, William Wyler. Wuthering Heights was written by, of all people. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur The script is the essence of the chord that less talented screenwriters tried to put out and couldn't. It gushes, but skillfully and effectively...