Word: fellowing
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...serious, correct and very intuitive, not a lawyer like Vance. And I believe that he is not a person to be bullied by anybody." Muskie indeed admitted to newsmen that "I've always found it useful for people to think of me as an intimidating sort of fellow...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair became the nation's best-known atheist in 1963 when, partly as a result of her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court forbade mandatory prayers in public schools. A fellow plaintiff in protesting Bible reading and/or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore schools was her teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried...
After World War II, despite sporadic explosions of artistic energy, usually fired by some new love, the once gregarious Picasso gradually became more than ever a recluse. He sustained many old feuds and started new ones with fellow artists, critics and dealers, but welcomed the obsequities of a faithful coterie. In 1958 he purchased a medieval chateau near Aix-en-Provence called Vauvenargues. "I've bought Cézanne's view!" he said. He spent most of his final years, however, at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, a hilltop villa at Mougins on the Riviera, named after a chapel...
...both Feliciano's and Amy's testimony had been seriously undermined by defense attorneys, who argued that the two jockeys' previous statements before federal grand juries were often contradictory. Amy, in fact, admitted to lying under oath before the grand jury in hopes of sparing his fellow riders. Said Amy: "I thought I could alleviate the pressure on me and my friends." When asked by the prosecutor whom he was hoping to protect, Amy replied: "Cordero and Velasquez...
...learning how to obey," says one Old Etonian. Beyond that, a good senior, or "fag master," helps new boys find their way around the complex campus and sometimes becomes a lifelong friend. Recalls Sir John Hogg, 62, chairman of the Old Etonian Association: "I had an extraordinarily good fellow as one of my fag masters. Our contact bridged an age gap in a very successful way." Then too, fagging at Eton created a great many social distinctions that are a British specialty. For example, "tea fags" have a softer berth than common fags. Higher still are the "library fags...