Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frequently offered service: asking clients for upfront money "to pay off the judge." The Feds evidently infiltrated judicial ranks with at least one visiting informer-judge: flamboyant downstate Circuit Judge Brocton Lockwood of Marion, who claims that he collected evidence of payoffs with a tape recorder stuffed into his cowboy boots. Lockwood found that the going rate to fix a drunken-driving charge...
...ascendancy of William Patrick Clark in Washington has been swift and, to many, unsettling. The Judge, as he is called, still wears cowboy boots with his three-piece suits and acts like a country lawyer. But this son of a hardscrabble California rancher has come a long way since his 1981 Senate confirmation hearings for Deputy Secretary of State, when his embarrassing ignorance of foreign affairs (he could not define detente or Third World) made him the butt of jokes around the globe...
Bill revered his grandfather, a colorful figure of local renown who mingled with some of Hollywood's top stars. Western Hero Tom Mix gave young Bill a cowboy hat, and at a dinner given by his grandfather, Bill and Shirley Temple were made honorary marshals. Despite this childhood exposure to movie stars, Clark never saw a Reagan film until last year, when the President finally showed him Knute Rockne-All American in the White House screening room...
...Canadian government was less astonished than infuriated. More than any other nation, it has been scrupulously cooperative in complying with U.S. requests for the extradition of fugitives. Florida's failure to file the forms and cowboy-style tactics hardly seemed justified. Under a 1971 U.S.-Canada treaty, Florida Governor Robert Graham could have requested Jaffe's extradition. But Putnam County State Attorney Stephen Boyles never provided the Governor with the necessary documentation...
Michael "Spaceman" Jonzun, who is probably the Space Cowboy, boasts "I'm bad I can do it better than you What ya gonna do?" You also get a healthy dose of call-and response chants and a few cowboy yodels...