Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saipan's snipers were the meanest yet. In this cable, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod tells how the marines went about one job of mopping up these fanatical, last-ditch fighters...
...Argentine customs authorities recently began to harass Uruguayans leaving Argentina. They took candy from children on the grounds that it contained material "necessary to Argentine economy," confiscated polo sticks of departing sportsmen. They even tried to take the official seal from a Paraguayan Minister. Last week they pulled the meanest trick yet: they seized the trophy which a Uruguayan football team had won in Argentina...
...Meanest slap of all was a neat turn of phrase of the kind in which Franklin Roosevelt delights: "It is not a tax bill, but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
...Jimmy Byrnes did not hesitate to leave the eminence of the Supreme Court, and its $20,000-a-year income for life, for a job that will be one of the meanest in the war effort. He well remembers his humble background: he was born after his father's death in a decrepit Charleston house, delivered the dresses that his mother sewed for a living, started as a law-firm office boy at 14, worked up to being a court reporter and studied law on the side. (He still takes his own shorthand notes at 150 words a minute...
...Enough? As it now stands, the tax bill will raise $26,000,000,000 for the government from individuals, from corporations, from excise levies, etc. Chairman George, a kindly man, called it "the biggest, meanest and toughest tax in U.S. history." It was still not tough enough to suit the Treasury...