Word: murrayism
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...have no comment whatsoever as to our reasons or our motives. Murray G. Shocket, the legal counsel for Yellow Cabs, said yesterday...
Though Giancana was responsible for untold murders, he was a stickler for social form. Dinner guests were ceremoniously presented to Antoinette. She was introduced, for example, to a "Mr. Humphreys," although "the rest of the world might know him as Murray the Camel." Giancana offered a silent prayer before the lavish meals the family shared with notorious killers. Few guests could be counted on as regulars at Giancana's table. Some periodically vanished into penitentiaries. Others were removed by hired guns. Yet Giancana never failed to bring his family to the wake of a fellow mobster, even when...
...ultimatum triggered an outcry from the Labor Party and the unions. Len Murray, general secretary of the powerful Trades Union Congress, declared that Thatcher was "accusing every union member-millions of British men and women-of being disloyal." The protest culminated in a half-day strike last week by thousands of civil servants and public service employees, and a brief stoppage of the national press. Criticism welled up even in the Conservative Party and in pro-Tory newspapers. But by week's end the Prime Minister had won her point and, in the process, inflicted a major defeat...
...Murray Weidenbaum, a mainstream conservative economist who served as the first chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, was never comfortable with the rosy claims made by the Administration's supply-siders, and resigned in the summer of 1982. To replace Weidenbaum and shore up the sagging credibility of Reaganomics, the White House turned to Feldstein, another conservative with strong credentials...
...other co-captain Ken Plutnicki, played a strong defensive and offensive contest and could have taken incredibly intense Brown freshman Todd Murray or any of his taller counterparts to the hoop, but only did so in spurts...