Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years since a nuclear weapon has been fired in anger, despite many serious crises we have had since 1945. The Soviets have no more interest in the destruction of Mother Russia than have we in the destruction of our beloved America. Both sides must avoid the game of "chicken"-pressing to see how far one or the other can go without crossing that lethal threshold...
Geter went on trial for the $615 stickup of a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet. Five prosecution witnesses identified him, but gave contradictory answers to questions about the robber's height and weight. For the defense, nine of Geter's colleagues testified that he had been at work at the time of the holdup. No physical evidence, like fingerprints or a gun, was presented. Still, in October 1982 the all-white jury found him guilty. At the sentencing hearing, Investigating Detective James Fortenberry testified that he had spoken with the sheriff of Bamberg County, where Geter grew...
...mistaken identity.' " But she quickly became intrigued: "I could not understand why all of these middle-aged white engineers were so upset. They were visibly shaken. Here was a young engineer making $24,000 a year. Now why would a guy like this hold up a fried-chicken restaurant?" Her story was the first to publicize that the tip leading police to consider Geter had come from a woman who had merely seen a black man park his car, nowhere near any robbery site, and taken down his license number...
...literateurs has harried him. Reviewers accustomed to propriety panned the book and accused Roth of writing pornography. Zionists and orthodox Jews charged him with betraying his heritage and making a mockery of the Holocaust. Jewish mothers, appalled by what they perceived as scathing anti-Semitism, threatened to lace his chicken soup with arsenic...
According to the U.S. embassy in Jamaica, Washington is currently pumping some $200 million annually into the economy. But instead of being funneled into long-term development projects, the money has fueled an inflationary buying binge in Jamaica's unstable economy. "Where we had been fighting over a chicken on market days, we are now importing video cassettes," says Jamaican Management Consultant Brian Young. Inflation has doubled in recent months, to more than 13%; unemployment stands...