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Word: nastier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nastier than that. When the Iceman was extensively X-rayed, researchers noticed a suspicious shadow under his left shoulder. Only recently was a CT scan used as well, and it confirmed that the shadow was an arrowhead. Its position made scientists wince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder in the Ice | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...whites too. Stoller?s uptempo bluesy charts (usually 12-bar blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic personality: Gardner?s lead tenor in a vaudeville vibrato of fear and trembling, Bobby Guy?s smart-guy growl (a nastier version of the Ray Charles tout-voice), Dub Jones? mindshaft bass delivering the cool catchphrases (as parent: "You better leave my daughter alone" and "Don?t talk back!"; as Charlie Brown: "Why is everybody always pickin? on me?") The Coasters? hits were loud, terse, vivid and un-sit-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...nastier. When Marina, a 25-year-old from Chisinau was met in Budapest by a stocky Bosnian calling himself Ivo, he told her she was too ugly for prostitution and might have to be sold by the kilogram for her organs. Ivo then took her and a friend to a hideaway in northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...jury awards. But now that Bush is in the White House and his legislative agenda is hitting Congress, the Wall Street Journal reports that the idea has been dusted off - and trial lawyers are calling it a preemptive strike on 2002. Because for Bush, these guys have an even nastier habit than smoking: contributing large sums of money to the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Mulls a Targeted Tax Hike | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

...what ugly result down the road? America will become a vast superpower Northern Ireland of the mouth, and the election of 2000 will seem like the Battle of the Boyne, and the Troubles will just go on and on. Within limits, of course, that is just political normality, only nastier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Discourse in the Age of the Smackdown | 1/25/2001 | See Source »

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