Word: lowdownness
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...lived marriage and moved to Hollywood for a few years, where he played bit parts in B-movies and took candid shots of the stars. Some of them, like his Hollywood Babylon-ish picture of Jayne Mansfield with her teeth and her bra in full forward thrust, have the lowdown feel of his tenement days. But when he came back to New York in 1952, he didn't understand the postwar city of slum clearance and social workers, the one that the Jews and the Irish and the Italians were all leaving for the suburbs. So Weegee moved...
Street Beats Asian Flu Get the lowdown on yesterday's trading from the FORTUNE Business Report...
...LOWDOWN ON CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA In contrast to three previous U.S. studies, researchers now say that kids who live near high-tension power lines do not have a significantly increased risk of leukemia...
...guys had the lowdown...
...likes to slip out on the street and play a tune or two because you can pick up cash quickly that way. Then he got his guitar, an expensive Martin, and after making sure there were no women in earshot, he swung into Catfish Blues, a song so lowdown nasty he said "I ain't gon' give you too much." Most of the verses were difficult to understand -- there was something about "belly to belly" and "skin to skin" in the middle there -- but it did sound downright filthy nonetheless. It gave you the feeling you had been caught peeking...