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Word: means (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played out most sinisterly to be a mean...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...both grouchy and mean, his acting most definitely has power...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...abandoned ambitions to be a political philosopher. The long scholarly pull did not suit his polemical talents and gregarious nature. His friend Literary Critic Hugh Kenner put the matter concisely when he said that Buckley "was simply moving too fast to think, by which I mean that thought had become reflex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cocksure William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...ahead for him, baseless euphoria is not among them. The day after his New York triumph, the Duke was once again the practicing Governor in Boston. While commentators were loudly proclaiming him the apparent nominee, Dukakis was modestly observing, "It's not over until it's over, and I mean it." His mode of travel was similarly humble at day's end: he walked across the Boston Common from the Massachusetts State House to the Park Street T station to start his customary half-hour subway ride home to Brookline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marathon Man | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

While the rest of baseball was settling into the season, the Baltimore Orioles were spinning out of the way, reeling from inside pitches too mean to be believed, looking silly and sad. Starting with a 12-0 opener at home, the Orioles lost the first six games for second-year Manager Cal Ripken, who was abruptly fired. Frank Robinson replaced him, and they lost ten more to shatter an 84-year-old major-league record. Once Baltimore was the proudest team in the game, and the winningest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Times in a Proud Town | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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