Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taste for subdued lighting and respectfully adoring young men. In some ways, given the difference between Cambridge, Mass., and Cambridge, England, he is reminiscent of Alger Hiss. He mentioned in his apologia that in the '30s he was drawn to Marxism and the U.S.S.R. in the light of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but went on to admit that it was the influence of Burgess that led him to translate this vague sympathy into active service on behalf of the KGB. I cannot, in any case, see Das Kapital as his bedside book...
...with the glee of a small boy on Christmas morning. He fled to Nevada in a vain attempt to escape California's community property laws during an acrimonious divorce and, suffering from a heart ailment, lost touch with his clubs. In his heyday, Cooke made the trades (Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), picked the draft choices, coached the coaches and chastised waiters in the Forum Club restaurant for allowing a guest's water glass to remain empty. The eye for detail paid off: the Lakers won the N.B.A. championship in 1972, and have remained one of the good...
Arafat calls Carter a Chamberlain, and I must say that in this instance I agree. Because that makes Gaddafi a Hitler and Arafat his Mussolini...
...felt we had to be forceful," Chamberlain said, adding, "the idea was not to be violent, but to be vocal." "We weren't being violent in any way, but neither were we being meek little lambs," he added...
...Chamberlain said 16 policemen and two paddy wagons were present at the time of his arrest, and the 16 policemen remained later in the day when there were only two picketers at the location...