1.   He is known for his acerbic wit and his mean streak.

2.   Stories of his mean streak were legion.

3.   The Puritans, however, had a mean streak.

4.   And they knew he had a mean streak.

5.   Botter rates them over ostriches because the larger birds have a mean streak and are big enough to flatten a grown man.

6.   A notch below Thornton, without the hairtrigger mean streak.

7.   Alex Marsh, another student who was a member of the trench coat group, said the boys did have a mean streak.

8.   But every time I dealt with him, there seemed to be a very mean streak.

9.   But clearly, they also worry that it conceals a mean streak that would punish the vulnerable.

10.   Contrast Gramm with Rep. Dick Armey, another Texan with a mean streak, a Ph.D. in economics and a professed distaste for government spending.