Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruit from the tree of life is still rationed, and often bitter. The U.S.'s 15 million Negroes are still denied the right to the pursuit of happiness on equal terms with whites. Negroes still do the meanest jobs and get the lowest pay; they must slowly wrest from their white fellows a table in a restaurant, a desk in a school, a smile, the privilege of praying in a white church or using a white swimming pool. This is true on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. While the Negro is generally better off, economically and socially...
...Harvard Gentlemen who defeated Davidson (35-26) Saturday were anything but that. . . . Despite all you hear about the ultra-ultra atmosphere of the Ivy League circuit, those Crimson characters were the meanest, roughest, most ruthless athletes you could locate outside a lumberjack's free-for-all. . . . The Southern Conference's most scandalous operators of the Flying Fist & the Uplifted Knee are creampuffs compared to Harvard. Charlotee News...
...silliest cases, and one of the meanest as well, occurred last week when a senior returning to Princeton was grabbed at Idlewild and shipped off to the detention camp. Of course, no one told him why, except that he was considered a possible "security risk." Tight-lipped officials managed to drop one him, however, and that concerned a letter the senior had written and sent to people around the nation while a sophomore, urging an armistice in Korea and the return to America of all American soldiers there. It also concerned a pro Chinese letter to the Princetonian last year...
Clinton S. Golden, Lecturer on Labor Problems, stressed that the opportunities for immediate employment on the staff of labor organizations are extremely limited. Those willing to start with the meanest job will find opportunities more numerous...
...meanest man I ever...