Word: earl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-range effect, many fear, will be to cripple the kind of tough investigative reporting that serves as an unofficial check on government at all levels. New York Times Newsman Earl Caldwell, one of the principals in the cases brought to the Supreme Court, goes even further. "Now," he said last week, "it's really impossible to do serious reporting in the U.S. if the Government doesn't want...
...matches, the decision about whether a contestant has been "killed" by his opponent is made by an earl marshal, who also enforces strict safety rules. The marshals decide if a particular stroke, had it been delivered with a real weapon, would have lopped off an arm or a leg; if so, the "wounded" soldier must continue to fight with an arm behind his back or while resting on his knees...
...effect, but hold off their subsidy payment claims until the export subsidy rose. The subcommittee's small staff had gathered no evidence that Continental had done any such thing-but no one thought to ask Palmby about it. Earlier, Purcell's subcommittee had allowed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to avoid any discussion of specific market transactions concerning wheat on the ground that confidential trade secrets were involved. Butz admitted, after previous denials, that one of his aides had tipped off six large export companies about an impending change in subsidy policy...
...years old before, as far as I can remember, the word pornography ever crossed my lips in public." But after seeing the London production of Oh! Calcutta!, the seventh Earl of Longford rose in the House of Lords last year to deliver an anti-obscenity speech so stirring that it stirred the Earl himself to action. Last week an unofficial, privately financed 52-man committee chosen and headed by Longford, completed 16 months of investigation by publishing a 520-page report on pornography. Unlike the President's commission in the U.S., Lord Longford's study found that pornography...
...Right now, 25% of my net profit comes out of subsidies." The Government's liberalized food-stamp program has helped keep demand for food at an alltime high; that in turn has propped up overall farm prices 13% higher than a year ago. Then there is Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz who has publicly exulted that high retail food prices are merely an overdue reward to the farmer. Says Billy Smith, who owns a medium-sized farm in Statesboro, Ga.: "That man is really telling the story of the farmer, and the President has made no effort to stop...