Word: nastier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white settlers shut up their shops in protest, flew flags of mourning, chalked up slogans saying GO HOME, TRAITOR, and SNUL (Flemish for simpleton). Had the irate settlers had any suspicion what energetic little Maurice Van Hemelrijck was about to do. their slogans might have been a good deal nastier than that...
...action against the lamprey. If the agreement is ratified, as expected, the two nations will invest nearly $3,000,000 (69% by the U.S., 31% by Canada) to erect lamprey-killing fences on all the spawning streams flowing to the Great Lakes. It couldn't happen to a nastier beastie...
...arena of a bitter struggle for survival. They face race discrimination, a housing shortage, a shortage of jobs. Before long, the air is heavy with bitterness. Says one Jamaican: "If ever there's any fightin' in our parts o' de world, we'd be nastier to the English than to any one, because we'd be remembering that for generations an' generations we'd been offerin' them a love they never even try to return." Author Lamming himself has done better than most Indies emigrants. Not yet 30, he has been...
...classmates and everyone else in Germany know a word nastier than a possible question by a New York reporter. The word is Sippenhaft, and it means, roughly, "family liability." It was widely used in Hitler's day when men, women & children were punished because they had anti-Nazi relatives...
...Free translation: the snails that are host to the parasite causing swimmer's itch and even nastier diseases probably won't be found in the Han. But if you want to gamble on a dose of lung flukes, the Han is pretty sure to have them...