Word: nastier
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...cynical world of spy novels, there is no nastier business than that of the double agent. No one can be certain whose side he is really on; each seems to have a price at which his services can be bought and his country betrayed. But never for the piddling...
...from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich., brought him a vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend, the pension crusader, and one of Long's nastier henchmen, the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, to launch the Union party. Their puppet nominee for the presidency: Populist Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota...
Harvard officials privately attribute much of the fuss to politics, but for them the situation may get nastier before it gets better. The council this summer approved in principle strict limitations on institutional expansion, and if current alignments are unchanged by the election, the ordinance will surely pass soon. In general, Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates oppose unlimited institutional growth, and many are making it a campaign issue. For once, they are joined by many of their conservative fellow councilors, but the battle against the crimson dragon still is proving one-sided...
...piece suit nailing a For Sale sign on your house, repossessing your car, walking out with all your living room furniture. It's all legal--after all these things are no longer yours--but it's a nasty business, and the people who do it for a living are nastier still--picture if you can the Frito Bandito with seven years of EST under his belt...
...first, even if you're the "home team" (as Harvard was last night), it's intimidating. Intimidation has long been the trademark of this particular wild pack of dogs from Commonwealth Avenue--B.U. has earned hockey supremacy by being meaner, hungrier, and nastier than everyone else. But last night something was missing...