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...exactly true?as you can imagine?but the important point for us is that they [the generals] want sugar [a common term for payoffs], and for that they are ready to do almost anything." If that is true, the scheme would tend to bear out one of the ugliest suspicions of business critics: corporate bribery encourages poor nations to spend cash on military equipment they do not really need...
This is the toughest, bawdiest town in America ... By night it has a certain inferno-like magnificence. By day it is one of the ugliest places I have ever seen...
...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...