Word: baton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gerald was convicted in 1979 for attempting to extort money from a contractor who faced late charges for failing to complete the Baton Rouge Civic Center on time. According to testimony, Gerald offered to distribute money among members of the Baton Rouge city council. Despite conviction, he won a third senate term, then went off to jail. There he befriended Everett Bleichner, an insurance adjuster convicted of extortion. Bleichner was released on Feb. 9. and Gerald made him a senate aide. After years of never expelling anyone, the senate last week voted 33 to 3 to oust Gerald...
Secondary roads off the interstates are often in much worse shape. In eastern Kentucky, where pockmarked roads suffer a relentless pounding from overloaded coal trucks, drivers bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full...
DIED. Emmitt Douglas, 55, civil rights activist and president of the Louisiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1968, who in 1956 initiated the lawsuit that desegregated Baton Rouge schools, and in 1971 was charged with inciting to riot during a demonstration against the shooting of two young blacks by white policemen; of a heart attack; in New Roads...
...with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described how a baton-twirling Miss Wyoming used her sexual prowess to try to win the Miss America Pageant...
...didn't even have a baton," she laughs, explaining that she conducted instead with a pencil. "Maybe that endeared me to them," she says. She hastens to add that she will be receiving a real conductor's baton for her next birthday...