Word: greediest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insult when hardliners like Iran and Libya keep threatening to cut back production in order to prop up prices. Remarked one middle-of-the-road delegate: "You just cannot believe how greedy these Iranians have become. They think they have invented the wheel." One of the cartel's greediest leaders, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, touched off a mini-panic on Wall Street at week's end. An Arab magazine quoted him as threatening to halt Libyan oil exports for up to four years and appealing to other oil producers to do the same. Said...
...Globe's heartwarming stories about people who've sent in $25 to the Globe Santa every year since 1908 and the Times's heartwrenching neediest cases stories, it was nice for us cynics in the audience to come across the Real Paper's "Real Santa" and his "Greediest Cases" list...
...Mark Zanger, who wrote the Real Paper article, pointed out, there wouldn't be any neediest cases at all if the greediest cases didn't hog everything. So the Realp piece wasn't really cynical--just showing the other side of the story...
Caudill occasionally gets carried away by excessively aghast prose ("The heart flutters in contemplation" while "the greediest mind boggles"). He does not pretend to be impartial. He does not even pretend to be fair. He is a prophet returned from his well-ravaged wilderness with a specific case which, as others have before, asks a general Bicentennial-spoiling question: Will the U.S. go down in history as the land of opportunity that could not control its opportunists...