Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether Namphy personally ordered the campaign of terror or maverick elements of the army took matters into their own hands is unclear. It is apparent, however, that Namphy never had any intention of allowing an election he could not control. A decree calling for dissolution of the electoral council was prepared at the National Palace five days before the election. Moreover, the performance of Namphy's army raised disturbing questions. At best, military officials stood by and let the carnage unfold. At worst, they were active conspirators. Either way, there was little denying that the Macoutes conducted their rampage with...
...state. In his bid to become Governor four years later, he won the endorsement of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. It was a rare miscalculation for Simon: not only did this marriage of convenience sully his reform reputation, but the Daley machine failed to deliver. He was upended by Maverick Dan Walker in the primary...
...Farley Mowat, a maverick Canadian with his own obsessions about endangered wildlife (Never Cry Wolf; A Whale for the Killing) has an even greater concern for the truth; he ransacks the victim's diaries, analyzes her work and interviews some hostile associates who believe "she got what she wanted"; "She mistreated everyone around her and finally was done in." A strange figure begins to emerge from the mists. From childhood on, Mowat observes, the coltish, willful Californian was beset with resentments toward the father who deserted his family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then...
Sporting hiking boots and a rumpled red flannel shirt, Walter Gilbert '53 looks like a scholar who spends more of his time out of the laboratory than in it. But any time that the maverick. Nobel Laureate spends outside Harvard's ivy walls is more likely to be in the boardroom than the great outdoors...
...What does love mean as it is used in this book?" asks Dr. Thomas Szasz, the maverick psychiatrist-author (Sex by Prescription), who teaches at the State University of New York at Syracuse. "Does it mean serenity or constant sex or something else?" The survey, Szasz contends, is "sensation mongering," designed to support Hite's preconceived feminist notions. Quips Ellen Goodman, the Pulitzer-prizewinning syndicated columnist: "She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic...