Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...even if an agreement on conventional parity does come off, we need to know the nature of the forces that would be left. The tank-production anomaly, for instance, indicates that we'd face a leaner but meaner Warsaw Pact force when all is said and done...
...more likely to be young, unemployed men who clean car windows at intersections or mill in groups on street corners. Drugs have become a perennial problem on the Bowery. "It's a fearful place," says Greenberg. "The men are a lot younger, a lot tougher and a lot meaner...
...believe she did not survive the delivery. Julius is brought up in a perfectly controlled environment, where he learns everything that can possibly be gleaned from books. Vincent is placed in an orphanage, from which he escapes to become a petty and entirely unsuccessful con man on L.A.'s meaner streets. In short, neither is equipped for ordinary life, and each needs the other to become a fully functioning human being...
BEST SCUFF/SNUFF JOB Minnesota Pitcher Joe Niekro was caught with an emery board on the mound at the height of baseball's season-long tempest over scuffed balls and corked bats. A meaner illegal substance, cocaine, stymied Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden...