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Word: verminous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still here? Unregenerate vermin. You are not even fit to be the smallest flea on a bulldog's tail. What excuse can you still have...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Evidently, these unsavory vermin are intended to represent fragments of Ronald Ann's ghetto-formed imagination. Get it? Instead of clean, Walt Disney fantasy figures, she conjures up polluted, harsh types--the tarnished ideals that a ghetto child might create...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...year about 2,000 additional structures are abandoned to rats, crack dealers, vagrants and vandals. In July three angry residents of Grayfield Street in northwest Detroit, fed up with the eyesores on their block, took matters into their own hands. With sledgehammers and axes they hacked down two abandoned, vermin-infested buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: Anybody Home? | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...Mani Sadr: How do you explain this: The capitalist vermin said they were sending 5000 missiles in exchange for $59, but you paid $5000 for 59 missiles...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Iran-a-Muk | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

Although Neurosurgeon Milton Avol usually lives in comfort in Beverly Hills, at the moment he can be found among disgruntled tenants in his own vermin- infested tenement in Los Angeles. Avol, 64, has been sentenced to live in his building for 30 days while monitored by an electronic device on his leg. The physician earned the nickname "Ratlord" after accumulating hundreds of health- and building-code violations on his four Los Angeles apartment houses since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: A Ratlord In His Roost | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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