Word: benjamin
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...this case, fate's banana peel is a game of vingt et un with (among others) Benjamin Disraeli. Flashy is precipitated through a few more dead waters of Victorian history and into a series of unspeakable yet plausible adventures. Among them are a slaving voyage, a sea battle off New Orleans, a meeting with Abe Lincoln (who spots him for a fraud, but not before Flashman tosses off a nice line about fooling some of the people all of the time), and a brief term of actual enslavement. "By the time you laboured in the sun a spell...
...Most assuredly, in the event of a bust at Massachusetts Hall, there will be an interruption in participation by the black members in the track program. George Yeadon Dewey Hickman Stanley Pohill Robert Clayton Baylee Reid Kevin Benjamin Leon E. Sharpe Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace Frederick Nance
Ultimately, six blacks--Dewey Hickman, Baylee Reid, Bob Clayton, Kevin Benjamin, Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace, George Yeadon and Frederick Nance--decided to leave the squad indefinitely, and issued a statement to that effect...
...Results. That confusion should give the Justice Department pause when it decides whether to retry the Harrisburg Seven, in a case that has already cost the Government an estimated $1,500,000. Indeed, the conspiracy law, invoked against such varied defendants as Charles Manson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Bobby Scale and members of the Mafia, has lately come under attack as one of the most elusive and elastic on the books. According to legal critics, U.S. prosecutors have increasingly and often unfairly exploited the fact that a conspiracy charge requires less evidence of actual injurious conduct than any other crime. There...
...Clearing House for Professional Responsibility. The group will publish a book this summer about whistle blowers. It is hiring a full-time employment counselor to help them find new jobs if they are fired, and even has a special mail drop to receive anonymous tips: P.O. Box 486, Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044. In an obvious reference to people like Nader, General Motors' former chairman James M. Roche said in a speech last year: "Some of the enemies of business now encourage an employee to be disloyal to the enterprise. They want to create suspicion and disharmony. However...