Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such friend since childhood, Peter Kaufman, said that he waited at a Westchester County bar to meet Sam, as previously arranged, but Sam did not arrive. Kaufman called the house of Sam's mother in Purchase, N.Y., about 20 miles south of Yorktown, where Sam had been staying while preparing a Manhattan apartment for use when he started his new job next month. There was no answer. Day by day, these events followed...
Yechiel went to Western Canada, started dealing in real estate and bought a hotel. Sam soon acquired a hotel of his own, but the coming of Prohibition in Canada in 1916 forced him to close the bar. He also saw that the law permitted alcohol sales across provincial borders. So, although it is just a coincidence that bronfen is the Yiddish word for whisky, the young Bronfman brothers started a wholesale mail-order liquor business. For a time it flourished, but as the Canadian authorities gradually took over all retail liquor sales, the Bronfmans began looking south...
...clout a few balls on the fairways of Vail, Colo., but his men were busy in the hinterlands on his behalf. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on the verge of a new round of Middle East talks, joined with Attorney General Edward Levi in bringing to the American Bar Association's convention in Montreal Ford's messages of diplomatic and investigative restraint. Then Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William Simon was smiting big Government hip and thigh...
Police prose is a burlesque of the administrative: "I apprehended the alleged perpetrator." (In a bar, the cop would say, "I collared this creep.") Eventually, all officialese takes on a mindless life of its own, the words combining and recombining according to some notion in the bureaucratic inner ear of how public language ought to sound, regardless (or irregardless, as they say) of what it means. This is an aerosol English, released by pushing a button. Writer Jimmy Breslin describes what is perhaps the ultimate in this prose: a policeman, testifying in a homicide case, refers to "the alleged victim...
...group could be expected to equate a confirmed reservation with a binding contract it would be a bunch of lawyers. Not the American Bar Association. Preparations for the A.B.A.'s annual meeting this week in Montreal were so tentative that delegates had to display more than fancy legal footwork merely to get there...