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Word: meanest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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America's working-class women have possibly the meanest street in the country to travel--and when they scream rape, almost no one will care. So they are learning a lesson which many more secure women have yet to learn--that we have not won ground until we are strong enough to hold that ground alone. And like the Vietnamese peasants fighting imperialism, they cannot give up the fight and go home--what they are fighting for is a home to go to. But working-class women are learning to fight well. In that reality there is hope...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Women at Work | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

...years. Morse's battles had been a tonic to him; the harsher the better. Mostly he raged at conservatives, who, as he saw it, threatened civil liberties, or at special interests that wanted to encroach on the public domain. But he also feuded with friends. Some of his meanest gibes were directed at people who thought that they were close to him. After breaking with Richard Neuberger, whom he had helped win a Senate seat in Oregon, Morse simply would not let up the attack. When Neuberger returned to the Senate after a bout with cancer, Morse blithely remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Death of the Tiger | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Going into Saturday's contest, MIT had been tabbed the number one threat to the 'Cliffe. But when the water smoothed after the eights contest, it was a surprising UMass squad that had given Radcliffe the meanest tussle...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Radcliffe Dominates Fours and Eights In Six-Team Crew Regatta on Charles | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...took flight. Max is trying to get to Denver to visit his sister Coley (Dorothy Tristan) and invest his frugally accumulated prison pay in a proud new business tentatively christened Max's Car Wash. He takes Lion on as traveling companion and prospective partner. "I'm the meanest son of a bitch alive," Max tells Lion by way of a warning and a boast. "We're gonna have a fair car-wash business or I'm gonna break your neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Maudlin Metaphors | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...front of these tube chillers, I found that time after time after time the nastiest ghouls and spectres did not make their appearance until the waning stages of the film. Well, it's just like the movies for the Harvard basketball team, because as the season winds up the meanest and nastiest of them all are about to make their appearance...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 3/2/1973 | See Source »

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