Word: seamier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Personally, I feel almost a squeamishness about getting into what could be a very ugly subject," Woodlief says. "The whole prospect of not reporting white backlash, the seamier side, has been not wanting to throw the first stone. It hasn't been there so far. I don't want to generate it, or even appear to be generating...
...cancer, and a mortified White House may have thought it had heard the last of her. But last week, after Morgan had been found bludgeoned to death in her North Hollywood apartment and her roommate, Marvin Pancoast, 33, had confessed to the crime, her memory made new, still seamier headlines...
...black market, usually situated in a black neighborhood, was $10,000 per year of his college career. Phelps knew coaches who were buying, and though he named no names, the name for men who make their living cruising the ghettos and romancing children is well known. A seamier sector in sport than college basketball can hardly be imagined...
...other writers in Israel and the United States What makes Halabi's book important reading is its combination of a passionate concern for the resolution of the West Bank conflict, and an unusual ability to see the situation from both sides Halabi confesses that he concentrates on exposing the "seamier side" of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank But he also points out the beneficial economic and social effects the occupation has had for Arabs of the region. And while he has on mistakes made by the Israeli government, he is equally critical of the inflexibility and militance...
...result, the regular clientele of 'Gilleyrats"-mostly oilfield roustabouts and construction workers-have been joined at the bars (all three of them) by hordes of tourists. The gawkers find the joint a lot seamier and steamier than its movie version. Says one reformed Gilleyrat of his old crowd: "If they don't get into at least one scrap, they think their weekend is wasted.' Houston, which had a dozen cactus cabarets in 1975, now has more than 300, few of which care to emulate Gilley's Dodge City style. The most successful, Fool's Gold...