Word: ugliest
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Briefed later that day in his hotel suite, Bush agreed to the battle plan. The next 18 days would be the ugliest of his political career. In the heart of the Confederacy, phone callers and leaflets attacked McCain's wife's drug addiction, made racial attacks on McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter and warned of "McCain's fag army." Bush won the state by 11 points...
...September" is troubling nonetheless, for its reminder that even the ugliest acts of terrorism - and bungled official responses - are driven by choices made in a political context. And while the security arrangements today are infinitely more advanced than they were at Munich in 1972, the scourge of terrorism remains...
...intend no ethnic slurs. I mean to suggest that chauvinist exhibitions become, themselves, a form of ethnic slur; Americans blaring pride in their origins somehow manage to insult themselves, to proclaim the ugliest stereotypes. We may be a nation of immigrants, but if you spike the punchbowl with too much booze and consequent stupidity, the results tend to encourage, in other Americans, feelings of covert ethnic loathing. We need to find more civilized ethnic displays...
...ugliest picture in the freshman facebook," O'Brien said. "I thought it was for Harvard's private records...Then, they put my picture next to [a woman] who deferred admission to star in Dynasty...
...house and spray a water hose in my face." Gustavo Moller, an NBC audio technician, suffered a gash above his left eye when an agent pressed the barrel of an automatic rifle into his face as he stood in the front door. "It was the ugliest thing I've ever seen," Moller says. "This is the most inhumane way to get at justice...