Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know what I mean?" Eventually, the bartender said, Jordan "did say something to the point where enough's enough. I think one of the girls got insulted." But Marshall was sure there had been no spitting of Jordan's drink, Amaretto and cream: that "would have been quite a mess, and she certainly wasn...
...eldest of seven children raised in a crumbling St. Louis housing project, Spinks took his first fight lessons from local street toughs, who dubbed him "Mess-over" (because he was easy to mess over) and mugged him for small change. Punches in fights eventually cost him two front teeth, causing the gap that has become his trademark. Spinks' parents separated some 13 years ago, and his mother taught Bible classes at home while keeping the impoverished family going with welfare money and maternal grit. His father once punished Leon by suspending him from a nail and administering a beating...
...some very fundamental problems to deal with. It seems obvious that the U.S. will have to bite the energy bullet--yet neither extensive conservation plans nor the development of alternative energy sources was legislated. It seems obvious that our current taxation and welfare systems are an unfair and unholy mess. The social security system has been edging toward bankruptcy for years. The federal bureaucracy has grown so huge and decentralized that it acts as both a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial fourth branch of the government, yet there has been no real reorganization since the New Deal. The Federal deficit...
...that I have anything personal against sado-masochism, but how is that going to solve my problem? When I say problem, I mean I pulled a real boner. Believe it or not, I went to the Coop and bought a whole mess of cards. I bought them for relatives, lovers, friends, foes and fiends alike, then I filled them all out and the envelopes too (making up zip codes randomly as usual). Then the phone rang. When I came back I sealed the envelopes and, ignoring my roommate's urgent pleas to wait, I dashed out to mail my Valentines...
...stepchild of intelligence. The FBI admits flatly it no longer has the manpower to keep track of all the Soviet KGB agents flowing into the U.S. and its efforts, like the CIA's, have been impeded by growing restrictions on surveillance. Admits one Carter aide: "Counterintelligence is still a mess. We haven't resolved anything except to deal with it in the classic bureaucratic sense: move the function and rename...