Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction of office buildings, shopping centers and luxury condos. Bankers practically threw money at them, and the two supremely confident former politicians readily signed personal guarantees for a variety of construction loans. "He was so persuasive and charming he could make you believe day was night," says Roger Chapman, a former business partner. In just three years Connally and Barnes built up their assets to a high of $300 million...
...nation's coastlines and employ almost its entire inventory of AWACS radar planes in a drug interdiction role." Said Chapman Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management: "To use F-16 squadrons to intercept low- flying, slow, propeller-driven aircraft will be a difficult task, but we could do it. It just would be very inefficient...
...subject of the speech has yet to be disclosed, but Victor Chapman, Charles' press secretary said Tuesday that the Prince had written his speech last week and was now reworking it. "It's not unusual for the Prince of Wales to do this on a speech," Chapman said...
...Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman in 1920 may have done more than Babe Ruth to usher in the modern long-ball era. (Because of Chapman's death, the owners replaced the traditionally scuffed, dirty baseballs with shiny new ones that could be seen better--and hit farther. Rabbit was not ; added to the ball until...
...homicidal maniac a la Mark David Chapman, out to erase all vestiges of the Master out of some perverse adoration of his work...