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Word: scum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city of victims. It's a filthy zoo where the animals have two legs and the media is the kids outside, squealing and giggling at the vicious capering of the beasts: "Woman explodes in subway station, film at eleven." The people are numb and helpless, the police impotent, the scum of the earth triumphant. The city desperately needs a hero, a savior--but the Batman vanished years...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

When the South African Consul-General joined members of the Conservative Club for a lunchcon in his honor, about 200 students greeted this racist scum at the Lowell House ICR chanting, "Apartheid Butchers OTT Campus Now!" and asking Conservative Club members, "Conservative Club What Do You Say. Would You Invite...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Victory | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

What red-blooded American doesn't love graphic stories about killing IRA gun runners. Basque terrorists, Syrians, Druze, and Iranian lighters who after all are the scum of the earth? I like Dirty Harry, Rivers doesn't mess around with stupid questions like "who is responsible" or "Is it legal." He gets right down to the good stuff, like now to blow up a terrorist's Renault while he is sticking his head under the hood...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Killer's Show 'n Tell | 4/24/1985 | See Source »

...term representative from Colorado from 1971-73, but he is now chief lobbyist of the 500,000-member National Federation of Independent Businessmen. Still, McKevitt acknowledges that when an ex-member turns to lobbying, the attitude of his former colleagues changes: "It's not that they see you as scum of the earth, but it is a kind of disdain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Legislator to Lobbyist | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...think I hurt people by living," Scum maintains. "My maniacal insistence on living my own life is in itself a terrible violation of everybody else." The reader sees little of such conflict. Insofar as the other characters have any life outside of Scum's ruminations, they are as simple and warm-hearted an assortment of waifs and eccentrics as can be found anywhere this side of William Saroyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Too True | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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