Word: crookedness
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Bundy, an ex-law student, led his own defense, occasionally cross-examining witnesses and raising legal points in a futile attempt to keep the prosecution from using its most incriminating evidence. But he left the closing argument to Defense Attorney Margaret Good. She attacked the case against him as "flimsy...
"The whole object of direct mail is to maximize personalization, and this machine does just that." Thus did William Ratigan, a top deputy to direct-mail political Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, explain a little device that seems to have arrived on the merchandising scene. Viguerie's organization sends out...
Well, if too many people hear that the crooked stamps come not from a dedicated volunteer's weary hand but from a dedicated robot, the purpose of the exercise is defeated. Later, Ratigan reconsidered. He declared that the machine did not exist, but did concede that the stamps are...
Soon the rain stops, and the clouds begin swirling in an unfamiliar turmoil, deadly and full of force. They move faster, roiling and dipping over a wheatfield. It is now 7 p.m. Suddenly, 1 ,000 yds. away, a charcoal sky seems to extend a smoky finger that stabs down at...
Quite clearly, the autonomy negotiations will be long and difficult. For the moment, though, both sides can take legitimate pride that the successful transfer of authority over El Arish was proof the treaty was working. The events, of course, had a special meaning for the people of El Arish, whom...