Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applicant for a fellowship must be between the ages of 25 and 40 and have spent at least three years working for a publication. He must also submit an essay explaining what a year at Harvard will mean in his career. As many as 150 applicants from all over the world will be considered by the admissions committee each year...
...What Does It Mean...
...thrust with considerable competence at Gettysburg-"General Meade will make no blunder on my front," Lee had correctly predicted-but let the defeated Rebs retreat unimpeded to the other side of the Potomac. Once again the North had lost an opportunity to end the war quickly: "What does it mean?" asked a despairing Lincoln. "Great God! What does it mean...
...lift twice the bomb load (12,500 Ibs.). Its great strategic importance in Viet Nam was to be that its new inertial guidance and radar targeting system enables it to bomb in foul weather or fair, either by night or by day. Its arrival in force would thus mean that the U.S. could keep up its aerial bombardment of the North despite monsoon rains or heavy cloud cover...
Honor Tracy resembles a particularly mean Irish longshoreman on strike. Her corner-of-the-mouth wit has the fine rollicking belligerence that keeps everyone within eavesdropping distance of the drunk at the end of the bar. But sure, Honor is a bit of a fraud. The fist she brandishes so threateningly is really papier-mache. Her secret problem is that she is a satirist who faints at the sight of blood. Her seventh novel has all the brilliance of an expertly pulled punch...