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Word: ugliest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call attention to myself. The other day I was in the library with my back turned to the main hall, and a friend of mine recognized me just by my socks." Adds Terry Giesen, 27, an employment manager at Manhattan's Lord & Taylor: "I pick out the oddest, ugliest pair I can find, then worry about something to wear with them. It's great to wear them under pants. Just enough shows so that people will say, 'Let me see those socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Sock-O Look | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

This is the ugliest hunk in the Yard, another undergraduate said. It looks like a dungeon. It's just overpowering drabness. I think it looks forbidding--kind of monstrous looking--Mem Hall does...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Whispering Bulk of Sever Hall | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...ugliest aspects of the bombing was that there had been no advance warning. Before the day was over, however, this had already become a less unusual characteristic of terror in Ireland. Outside a bar in the small border town of Monaghan, 80 miles north of Dublin, another bomb exploded without notice. At least five people were killed outright and 20 more wounded, most of them critically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Bloodier Friday in the South | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...There was nothing illegal about it, and Wilson himself was not involved. But many Britons found it unseemly TOPIX that the charge of land speculation should be raised against intimate colleagues of a man who a few weeks ago was denouncing it as "the biggest single scandal, the ugliest of the faces of present-day capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Silly Little Diversion | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

Nothing was ordinary about Bernard DeVoto. Even his homeliness was spectacular, compounded of defiantly bulging eyes and a nose broadened in a baseball accident. Girls from Ogden, Utah, remembered him all their lives as "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Also the smartest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Go East, Young Man | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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