meany
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1. meany - Noun
2. Meany - Proper noun
Meaning
a person of mean disposition
United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980)
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This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.
Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.
After Muir's death in 1914, Edmond Meany gave a lecture on Muir “in memory of one of the great naturalists, poets, and philosophers of the Coast,” wrote The Seattle Times at the time.
Jim Carrey narrates this adaptation of John Irving's "A Prayer For Owen Meany," and bookends the movie as the titular character's grown-up best friend, played in flashbacks by Joseph Mazzello.
In One Person has a first-person viewpoint, Irving's first such narrative since A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving decided to change the first-person narrative of Until I Find You to third person less than a year before publication).
In October 1962, Mets official Tom Meany said, "Only a series of blizzards or some other unforeseen trouble might hamper construction."