Word: askew
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...grey-haired man who looks rather faded in person, running behind schedule in the daily process of assembling a 24 minute melange of the day's news with which to inform the 25 million or so Americans who tune in each weeknight. His hair is askew, his shoulders stooped. It is not yet noon, and you can tell that Walter Cronkite has paid for all those years of busting his ass to be the first wireman with the story, and why he sounds like the voice of time. A couple of inches under six feet tall, with a midsection that...
...that Carter promised to support him for President in 1972 and then reneged. (Carter replies that his own letter of refusal to Wallace rests in the Georgia archives.) George McGovern is resentful because Carter joined the forces trying to stop his nomination at the 1972 convention. Florida Governor Reubin Askew is unhappy with Carter for not backing him for the chairmanship of the Southern Governors' Conference...
...white jury took only 90 minutes to find Pitts and Lee guilty of murder all over again. They would have been convicted, said a shaken defense attorney, even "if the Twelve Apostles testified for them." Refusing to give up, Miller* and others continued to fight until Governor Reubin Askew agreed to order a new investigation a year and a half ago. Askew personally participated in part of the inquiry and sent his legal aide to talk with Adams. He confessed again, recanted and then confessed a third time to Florida Attorney General Robert Shevin...
...Each. Persuaded that Adams had "information that would be very difficult to recount without knowledge of the commission of the crime," Askew earlier this month concluded that "substantial doubt exists as to the guilt of Pitts and Lee." He recommended that they be given a full pardon. Under Florida law, the Governor needed the concurrence of at least three of his cabinet officers, who are independently elected. Last week the third O.K. came, and Pitts, 31, and Lee, 40, walked out of Raiford. The state gave them $100 each. Pitts said he harbored "bitterness" but not "hatred." Said Lee just...
...when he suffered a massive stroke while attending church in nearby Walsall and was left incapacitated. But his small paneled office, with a Turner painting slightly askew on the wall, has been left completely and eerily untouched. A space in the factory parking lot is kept permanently in reserve for the gray Bentley he used to race around the countryside collecting speeding tickets...