Word: jowl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faster social brains; to allow neurons to be packed more densely still, further boosting intellectual synergy. After all, it was via writing that royal bureaucracies kept large cities functioning. And writing also meant clear, precise legal codes, which kept urban life peaceful, even though people now lived cheek by jowl with lots of other people who were neither friends nor family...
...know, I know. The mere mention of such establishments incites spasms of head-shaking and jowl-flapping among a certain hoary, wheezing segment of the Harvard and Cambridge community. The sticks-in-the-mud dredge up the same tired claim that bringing in large, proven businesses will sully the Harvard Square charm, that they will stain the Harvard University image...
...want to be a Jerusalem cop? As if the tinderbox of Jews and Palestinians living cheek-by-jowl in a city sacred to both isn't volatile enough, Millennial fever is bringing to town all manner of Christian fundamentalist whackos in search of apocalypse. "The major concern of the police is that some of these groups believe they need to create Armageddon in order to bring back Christ," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They plan to do that by destroying Muslim holy sites in order to provoke...
...grew up in Belfast cheek by jowl with Orange culture...I learned little or nothing positive about it at school and I presume that my British Protestant friends were taught nothing positive about Gaelic Irish culture," she said...
...Antelope Valley's skinhead fringe Finnegan sees a new kind of despairing descent of the white middle class intersecting on the way down with upwardly mobile blacks moving into the valley. In the black community of New Haven, bitterly set cheek-by-jowl with the neverland of Yale, Finnegan allows himself a generalization about "structural unemployment--the cruelest edge of the American economy's deindustrialization and increasing reliance on untrained, insecure labor, and a close cousin to the pervasive undereducation in public schools in poor and working-class neighborhoods...