Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Loyal Park said after the game, "We determined beforehand that if things went well, we'd get some of the kids a little work." Things were going well after three, with the squad sitting on an 11-run bulge. But the complexion changed rapidly...
...trials themselves have a different complexion, with juries approximating the city's racial makeup. And juries virtually never vote to convict if there is any suspicion of police brutality. This, perhaps more than any other change, has brought court reformers into head-on collision with the police. A columnist wrote in the Detroit Police Officers' Association newspaper: "If a person accused of a crime appears before Judge James Del Rio and says he was beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares...
...velocity is not the unnerving aspect of Cloherty's presence. Rather, it is the black-and-white complexion of Anderson's operation, a good-or-evil world-view, which unsettles...
...efforts, the gritty good humor of President Nixon at his 61st birthday party was belied by his appearance. His complexion was pallid, and he looked haggard and weary. Clearly, the two weeks already spent in San Clemente had not, as hoped, begun to refresh his spirits or restore his vigor. The evidence of the President's weariness came as a particular jolt to some of his staffers: they literally had not seen him since his arrival...
...columnists-everybody from James Kilpatrick to Carl Rowan -they're all solid Americans") and arrives well prepared for his day's work after predawn study. A mediocre golfer who is pleased when he breaks 100, Sirica has wavy black hair, an erect bearing, and a healthy complexion that makes him appear some 15 years younger than his 69. The Siricas have three children: Jack, 20, Patricia, 17, and Eileen...