Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important thing a man has to tell you," said John son, "is what he is not telling you." L.B.J. could mimic every adversary. "Don't look out those windows," he warned his staff who were across the street the day after Kennedy's murder. "The people in the White House will think you are looking for power." When a TV reporter offended Johnson, he told an aide, "He's a walleye. My daddy said never trust a mule or a man who is walleyed...
...driver, court reporter and general assistant, Mike Benitez, 22, ferries him from county to county, some 1,700 miles a month. In only a few days, in three different courts, Moran will change some child visitation rights, grant half a dozen divorces, hear pretrial motions on a first-degree murder charge, listen to motions on a complex home-construction case, sentence a drunken driver, a housebreaker and a cocaine peddler (90 days' probation). The legal issues and questions he constantly confronts hop from civil to criminal to constitutional...
...another case he heard the murder trial of two white youths for beating an Indian who later died of brain damage. When Moran sentenced the boys-six years for the leader, two years for the other -some Indians were furious and tore down the American flag outside the courthouse...
...Aristophanic view, snatched back to the human condition by the fireman in priest's clothing just visible in the window behind her, the one smiling at the telephoto lens. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria - which is our actual experience...
Singh's willingness to accept Gandhi's support opened him up to charges of opportunism. Singh was said to have accused her of being a congenital liar who had conspired to murder opposition leaders. One of those leaders was Singh himself, who had been jailed by Indira during her 19-month state of emergency...