Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think your socioeconomic background makes much of a difference, except maybe people of lesser means may not be able to go out to Boston or go to more expensive Eurotype clubs," Powe says...
...come from a family with lesser means, you're never introduced to a jacket and tie or a cocktail. It's just not part of your experience," says Linzee, who grew up in Stony Brook, N.Y. That's the way I look at class, as experiences...
...adopt a white-trash Southern cadence and wear a persuasive dust-bowl scowl. In stir she sits and stares, her old sexual insolence tamped into sadness and contempt. She looks haggard, wiry, prickly--fabulous. By the end she is practically Garbo in Camille, the doomed woman comforting the gentle, lesser man who loves her. Stone does a fine job without surrendering her star quality. She just can't save this schematic story...
...over the next week, the agents let it be known that, alas, the typefaces did not match, although they had high hopes for a third typewriter, discovered later. What they did not mention was that nestled next to that third machine in Kaczynski's loft was something that made lesser discoveries moot: a manuscript of the manifesto itself...
...Soviets in 1945, including Priam's Treasure. "Contrary to custom," sniffs a statement from Berlin's Museum of Early and Pre-History, "the Pushkin Museum will be exhibiting the Schliemann gold without the participation of its owner." German curators have even broached the idea of lending the lesser Schliemann artifacts they still possess to the Pushkin, presumably in exchange for a return loan. But so far there has been no response...