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Word: scum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point here also isn't that everyone who believes Harvard must divest thinks the President and Fellows of Harvard College are racist nightriding scum. Indeed, the vast majority of the marchers in front of Mem Hall were likely very embarassed by what one historical revisionist had to say about what President Bok would have done had he been President Andrew Johnson...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Divestiture Follies | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

...write with a lot of exclamation points and use inflammatory phrases. I am an aspiring journalist, so this style of writing seems distasteful. Talking with one as he tried to sell me Young Spatacus, for example, I had to point out that the phrase "white-hooded Ku Klux Klan scum" was too strong a tone to take; it was also redundant...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: A Viable Alternative? | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

...spent most of his life cheating on his employers on his wife on the IRS. But by the time his family discovers his crimes, he is saved from punishment by his comatose state. At first, wife Lily refuses to believe that her husband of thirty years is such a scum. When she can no longer escape the awful truth, she moans. "All I have left is a corpse that betrayed me." Daughter Marshal takes aim at her mother with Freud and fires accusations of resistance represscion and denial. Then the two plot Daddy's death, considering all the options...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vegetable Garden | 4/10/1984 | See Source »

Before dispersing, the protesters marched to Holyoke Center on Mass Ave. chanting "Lebanon, Grenada, U.S. out now" and "The Marine scum must...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Protestors Picket Marine Recruiters | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...thousands of wife beaters who happen to be in prison (almost all are there for some other, less peculiar crime) regard rapists with contempt, and rapists in turn call the cellblocks' child abusers scum. But in fact the three groups have some rough affinities. The privately violent are often alcoholic or drug-dependent. All three species tend to have low opinions of themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Violence | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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