Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most immoral scum ever to hit the country... Brown's not even a flake--he's organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives in a world where the Skull and Bones club appointed William Sloane Coffin to handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good...
...enemy from school days, receives the worst treatment, and for a telling reason. "In our own way we were both snobs," Beaton admits, "and no snob welcomes another who has risen with him." When the novelist dies in 1966, he writes: "So Evelyn Waugh is in his coffin. Died of snobbery...
Lightfoot completed her bid for a hat trick and capped off an outstanding third period at 12:18. Junior forward Sara Fischer fired a beauty into the net, followed by Freshman Vicki Palmer's bullet and junior Barb Coffin's first score of the season...
Scoring: Harvard, Mahoney, 1; Putnam, 1; Hill, 1; Reed, 2; Lightfoot, 3; Yunick, 1; Fischer, 1; Coffin, 1; Palmer...
Dade County's blacks have picketed the courthouse and marched through downtown Miami with a black coffin. Says McDuffie's mother: "They beat my son like a dog." The family has filed a $5 million suit against Dade County and the accused policemen. "The facts are blatant and obvious," says Dade County's acting public safety director, Bobby Jones. "It was revolting, the most shocking damn thing I've seen in 20 years of police work...