Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They stood in a ring around me and just grinned. They were the meanest grins I ever saw. I was scared. Then the biggest one hit me in the face, and they all jumped on me. It's hard to say how many they were; it was pretty dark. I recognized the meanest one--he was kind of short--from a picture in the newspapers. They knocked me down and then kicked me. I can't remember anything else. It was awful...
...labored over a diary that grew to 600 type written pages. He graduated in the top ten (of 92) from the three-month course for rookies. Then, as he wrote last week in the lead of "Badge 384." his front-page series: "I was the law in the rawest, meanest, toughest police district in Cleveland...
...ruthless exercise in geometry. For every shot, he argues, there is one proper return, one proper angle to aim for. "You don't play the person, you just play the board as if you were a machine. Tennis looks genteel," he adds, "but it's the meanest, most vicious game I know...
...grads watch Halfback John David Crow and are happily reminded of that Aggie immortal, Jarrin' John Kimbrough. The hard-charging linemen are many, mean and magnificent, and recently the squad elected Sophomore Jim Stanley as the meanest of the bunch. "Shucks," said the dark-eyed guard who knows an Aggie compliment when he hears it, "that's an awful big honor...
...most disappointing of the new summer shows was last week's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), which switched from ABC to CBS and began a new dramatic series with The Meanest Man in the World. It was a farce about a kind young man with a mean old father who demanded that the mortgage be foreclosed on a defenseless old widow and a deserted orphan on Christmas Eve. Much of the writing was pretty good, particularly when the father was teaching his son the first principles of meanness: "Nice guys don't win ball games...