Word: chutzpah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...active defense attorney, having defended such clients as O.J. Simpson, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson. He has also authored several books including Reasonable Doubts, Chutzpah and Reversal of Fortune...
Hello, future fellow alumni! I am Sack, the heretic author of An Eye for an Eye. Call it chutzpah, but in it I wrote that in 1945 hundreds of Jews wore olive-colored uniforms and ran a Polish bureaucracy called the Office of State Security. I wrote that they and the Catholics who worked for them rounded up German civilians, took them to 1,255 camps, beat them with "beaters-to-death," put splinters up their fingernails, put living toads in their throats, and put gasoline in their hair, then lit it. I wrote that...
DIED. LEO ROSTEN, 88, author best known for his works celebrating Jewish culture; in New York City. His definitive reference work, The Joys of Yiddish, published in 1968, introduced readers to colorful and now common terms like schlemiel, schmaltz and chutzpah. A native of Poland, Rosten seasoned his scholarship with humor, which he called "one of the requirements for sanity...
...Harvey Weinstein is not a timid soul. His eyes for movies are as big as his stomach. And as his gut shrinks, those eyes get bigger. If there were an Oscar for chutzpah, he and Bob would win every year...
...weeks after his re-election, when reporters pressed him on the foreign-contribution scandal, he compared his treatment by the media to that of Richard Jewell, of Olympic-bombing fame. Two months later, in a speech to the Democratic National Committee, after his Inauguration, he showed the same chutzpah (as Isaiah might have...