Word: bum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another saint, the public was happy either way. Hating a Liston was just as much fun as respecting a Patterson, and just as painful for the victim-challenger. In brilliant sketches of the archetypes, Remnick suggests Liston was trapped in his badness--people wanted him to be a bum forever--while Patterson lived in constant fear of not being good enough...
...bum a bullet...
...sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach to visit when the takes a break from working his farm in the beautiful inland hills. There, according to Jelly-Man, he "grows everyt'ing: Sugar cane, potatoes, ganga...
...grade. McMullen, a millionaire, spent $475,000, including $227,000 of his own money. Tuttle lives on Social Security and spent $200, mostly for Porta-Potti's at his nickel-a-plate "FredFest" fund raiser. McMullen ran ads and crisscrossed the state. Tuttle sat on his porch nursing his bum knee, venturing out for debates only in the campaign's last week. Tuttle beat McMullen, 24,561 votes...
...will be "any Bible Belt prosecutor who's itching to make a name for himself." Oxley is the sponsor of the Internet decency act that was approved by a House Commerce subcommittee Thursday -- a bill that bears a striking resemblance to the 1996 Communications Decency Act that got the bum's rush from the Supreme Court, 9-0, for being unconstitutional. So what's Oxley -- who says this bill is "a more reasonable product" -- got going this time...