Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brandishing a Chinese-made AK-47 semiautomatic rifle, a man rose from his seat at a hearing of the California assembly in Sacramento last week and announced to some 80 startled listeners, "Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at your watches and start counting. You are lucky that I am the attorney general and not some nut. Because if I had the ammunition, I could shoot every member of the assembly by the time I finish this sentence -- about 20 seconds...
...touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry -- Schultz calls them "dago scungili" -- are moving in on his operations. Dreadful events threaten; all of them occur, and then some...
...Says Professor Rothstein: "Whenever jurors . . . feel that a substantial amount of information is being kept from them, they are reluctant to find the defendant guilty. The more it can be made obvious that information is being shut off by the Government, the more Brendan Sullivan can claim, 'Ladies and gentlemen, they are putting blinders...
Since his Inauguration, Bush has been trying to keep intact the tacit gentlemen's agreement forged by his fuzzy call for an era of bipartisanship and high ethical standards: if everyone in power would just get along with everyone else in power, all would be well. A 51% federal salary increase would quietly take effect, the Cabinet could be swiftly and pleasantly confirmed, sleaze would disappear in a warm glow of mutual trust. If everyone would make the same rosy economic assumptions, money would be found to pay for the savings and loan cleanup just unveiled and the budget just...
...issues facing the University, has not yet indicated that she will make many changes, though we hope that she will take opportunity of her appointment to listen to and represent student interests to the governing body. According to Heiskell, the biggest change may be that "one says `lady and gentlemen,' instead of `gentlemen...