Word: clay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offense flagrant, then my response would be clear. But I can not discern the implications if I can hardly presume the intent. A janitor may have removed it for noncompliance with housing codes, unaware of its significance. Yet, I reject this as unlikely; it was legally hung on poster clay which remains in place, and few janitors would so boldly invade a private doorway. Nor was it a likely candidate for unft. (Who has underworld connections in a $10 mezuza market?) Such a motive seems andesesvedly optimistic...
...district attorney of Louis Parish, La., Jim Garrison, also announced that he had solved the JFK assassination. His theory was that a conspiracy was headed by the director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced...
...Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost of the destruction was estimated...
...contributors, including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing $25,000 a day. Chairman Whittle's gala announcement: "After 13 years, we have come back into the black." Established magazines, once they falter, are rarely able to turn around, and Esquire falls between two categories...
...entrees include Mughlai lamb-and-rice casserole, chicken with almonds and sultanas, and easy-to-make haddock baked in yogurt sauce. Jaffrey describes a technique by which the home cook can simulate the tandoori-style dishes offered by so many Indian restaurants without investing in the expense of a clay oven. And she has the definitive recipe (among dozens) for mulligatawny, the classic Anglo-Indian soup...