Word: unpleasanter
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By 1925, Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern...
A HOUSE IN ORDER, by Nigel Dennis. A savagely witty parable, posing as a novel, about a quiet man who prefers to be a prisoner in a glass house rather than throw stones in an unpleasant world.
In Europe nearly everyone gets a bonus to compensate him for the added costs of a wife, a child, a dependent parent, or unpleasant working conditions. Italians are paid $8.40 a month extra for each child, also collect supplements if they work at an open-hearth furnace, at a high...
In many ways, this was one of the most unpleasant and nerve-racking meetings in the 177-year history of the house. Although the bishops faced a heavy agenda, all other business was overshadowed by discussion of the heresy charges against Pike, raised by South Florida's Henry Louttit...
"Our country has been paying increasingly in blood and treasure ever since. Neither The Times nor the Administration admits this unpleasant background, but the deaths each week of 100 dutiful American soldiers should keep us from forgetting it."