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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand on the levee near Jackson Square in the French Quarter, you can see the Mississippi flowing by at about seven feet above street level. It's a big, brown, mean-looking river, just waiting for the next hurricane to sweep away all the pretty, shabby stucco buildings with their fancy wrought iron balconies. Local people know this, just as they know that the city is sinking under their feet and that there aren't many jobs around now that all the oil and chemical companies are going under. But they don't seem to care much. They keep sinking...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: A Sinking Feeling | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...poor freshman will give away his lowly status by his quizzical gaze and questioning stammer when an upperclassman friend simply says, "After my Science A, I'll be swimming at the IAB--I mean MAC--you know, right around the corner from OCS, by D.U. Meet me there and we'll have lunch in A-house...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...know is I think Cliff Jolly is a shit. He, or someone destroyed a lot of things out of sheer jealousy. I mean, someone poured acid on the slides of lemur chromosome studies that BJ had done," says Spuhler...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Drugs And Chocolate | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...mean the deal that I really don't care about, but will make me lots of dough if I devote to it countless hours of my limited time here on earth...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Ulltimate Job | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...wake up screaming. I think my wife is still ugly and mean in this dream, but I didn't see her often enough to remember...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Ulltimate Job | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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