Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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A Minnesota lawyer named Martin Beatty was incensed last year when a member of the planning commission in the town of Winona called him a son of a bitch three times-prefaced by the adjectives "little" and "goddam." The occasion was a public debate over an urban-renewal plan that...
In throwing out that lawsuit, the Minnesota supreme court recently ruled that calling a public figure an s.o.b. is not in itself defamatory. While Papenfuss's remarks displayed some ill will, said the court, Beatty had failed to prove "malice"-as the law requires. Moreover, Beatty admitted that the...
The conversation is the essential Von Hoffman. Irreverent, breezy, arrogant, selfconscious, Nicholas von Hoffman has deliberately established himself as a completely subjective reporter. The Post has given him carte blanche to go anywhere and write anything, and three times a week the results go off resoundingly. For Von Hoffman has...
Teeny Judge. Von Hoffman is many things. He is the only really radical reporter working regularly for a major American newspaper. His writing is compelling, and although he often gets carried away by his own black sense of humor, his thinking is lucid. He is attuned to what is going...
President Nixon is rarely referred to by name; instead, he is "what's-his-face," "whosis," and "the Great Kiwani." The kidnaping of the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil is interpreted as "a unique opportunity for a diplomat to get out of the embassy compound and rub elbows with the...