Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is bigger and meaner. Sometimes brown rats massacre black rats, but more commonly they interbreed, blending the species into an intermediate type. The U.S., which has both kinds (and others too), is a melting pot for rats...
...financial ads, gave a Rosey example of how they might be done: "AMALGAMATED GOULASH-The Stock That Has Everything! Coming Soon to the Bijou (formerly E. F. Hutton, Inc.) Romance! Mystery! Dividends! Starring Mortimer Schnook, Our Vice President Who Thrilled You in 'Passion on the Curb.' Meaner Than Mason. Creepier Than Karloff. Doors Open 10:00 a.m. $13 a share...
...points, his admiration carries him away. Oscar, he insists, was an "innately happy" man, who "never experienced a day's unhappiness until he was 40 years old" (1894). Even his last years in exile on the Continent were reasonably happy; the "martyrdom has been made to look much meaner than it really...
...Meaner the Better. Guam's fighting kennel has about 60 dogs, mostly Dobermans, some German shepherds, a few other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...
...into law last fall. In a single powerful speech-one of the greatest of the 77th Congress-he shattered farm-bloc opposition, saved the day for the Administration, earned Franklin Roosevelt's gratitude. Like many a good man before him, he now takes his reward in a harder, meaner assignment: a job that nobody but a Leon Henderson would want and that few men would accept...