Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strode into the post office in his blue uniform, toting three pistols and ammunition in a mailbag slung over his shoulder. Without a word, he gunned down Richard Esser, one of the supervisors who had criticized him, and fellow Postman Mike Rockne, grandson of the famous Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne...
Reaction to the fashions, shown on French TV, was mixed. Jesuit Theologian Jean Michel welcomed relief from today's "dull and uninspiring" vestments- by-catalog. But a priest at the Paris chancery office saw new evidence of the "crisis in the West." Meanwhile, an old woman entering Notre-Dame cathedral was perturbed: "Why dress up priests as circus performers...
...party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head, and an orange-haired hybrid of a buffalo and a gorilla, who walks like Charles Laughton's Hunchback of Notre Dame and talks like Grover on Sesame Street...
...Governor's response took the form of a lengthy, closely reasoned speech at Notre Dame in which he disputed the proposition that a Catholic public official has a duty to obey the church before the laws of the state. A Catholic Governor in a pluralistic society, Cuomo argued, should not impose his personal and religious opposition to abortion on those he governs. "To assure our freedom," Cuomo said, "we must allow others the same freedom, even if it occasionally produces conduct which we would hold to be sinful." The speech further estranged Cuomo and O'Connor. Today their relationship...
...murder. While many smiled over the acronym's reference to Rico, the archetypal gangster played by Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, federal prosecutors were slow to use the new legislation. But "since 1980 it's been used aggressively," says the delighted principal drafter, G. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor...