Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides helping them to help others, the course has benefited the bartenders themselves. A woman graduate who admitted she was once "the meanest barmaid in town" learned to be less provocative and more conciliatory. Recently she talked one patron out of shooting her husband and another out of wielding a knife in a fight at the pool table in her tavern...
...began publishing monthly articles in major magazines detailing the success of the FBI against the most famous criminals of the day, with titles such as "Buzzard in Disguise," and "the Meanest Man I Ever Knew," to drive home the point that criminals were not admirable figures. He also began allowing magazine and book writers to enter the Bureau and produce highly favorable articles about himself and the enemies. He wrote introductions for books with titles such as Ten Thousand Public Enemies and Our FBI: An Inside Story...
That struck a tender nerve in Lindsay's tense New York. Evoking the specter of the "biggest, sloppiest, meanest strike in the city's history," Victor Gotbaum, executive director of Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called out some 7,300 workers in an effort to persuade the legislature to change its mind. More than 600 Teamsters joined the walkout...
...academic laxness caught up with his three terms later. Finally, this Fall, he decided that he should return. "It sounded like sort of a weird idea." Scoggins said Thursday night in explaining it. "And I still had some fantasies about how great I was. I'm probably still the meanest man in Cambridge...
...California speedway, the Angels waded into the crowd with pool cues, leaving an 18-year-old black, Meredith Hunter, dead in their wake. (The Angel who killed him was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.) It all bolstered the legend that the Angels were the toughest, meanest cyclists around...