Word: abner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that mysterious exercise in legislating that troubled the appeals court. Noting that lobbying is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment, Judge Abner Mikva, speaking for the majority, reported that the court had searched the remarks and actions of Congress for indications of why the veterans were granted special status. There seemed to be none, said Mikva, a former member of the House for nine years. "It is therefore difficult to resist the conclusion that the tax preferences for lobbying by veterans' organizations reflect no policy but simple lack of attention and consistency...
...fresh Florida day in Winter Haven (one of God's waiting rooms), where the old gray heads in the grandstand seem to go back to Abner Doubleday, baseball has gone back to baseball. Last season was interrupted for 50 games by shrill lawyers and labor leaders, and the grace note of laughter never quite returned. Some wondered if it ever would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish...
...response to the letter of October 15 by Alan L. Jackson, Errol T. Louis, Abner A. Mason and Brian M. Weber--members of the William J. Seymour Society--we, too, as Christians of African descent, pray that Blacks will also heed the biblical wisdom imparted by Proverbs, Chapter 25, Verses...
...justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. --Alan L. Jackson --Errol T. Louis --Abner A. Mason Jr. --Brian M. Weber Members, the William J. Seymour Society
...first row who sits next to the windows? I mean that's professional, that's fantastic." Brother Third, who played Winthrop, Marian's little brother, says that there was some jealousy when she went on to get the leads in Li'l Abner and Oklahoma. The present Bernards High drama teacher, a veteran road-company actor named Dick Everhart, happened to be applying for a job when Meryl played Laurie in Oklahoma. Her enormous natural gift was clear even then. Says he: "When she walked on the stage there was nobody else there...