Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, off-duty police have scuffled with uniformed officers in vitriolic demonstrations over working conditions. In Detroit, bitter police officers insolently nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file...
...roman à clef was once a cosy affair. But one touch of TV makes the whole world kin. Readers will have no difficulty in making out the shaggy outlines of Presidents J.F.K., L.B.J., R.M.N., not to mention Henry Kissinger (Carl Tessler in the book), J. Edgar Hoover (Elmer Morse) and others, including, eventually, E. Howard Hunt (Lars Haglund), who (yes, indeed) is planted on President Monckton...
...that time, the Trudeau government appeared to be involved in scandal. The first came in November, when Tory M.P. Elmer Mackay unsuccessfully petitioned Commons for a judicial inquiry into possible federal influence peddling in the granting of duty-free shop concessions at Montreal's airports. Mackay charged that Louis Giguere, a Liberal Senator and prominent party fund raiser, had made a $92,000 windfall profit from the timely purchase and sale of shares in Sky Shops Ltd., the concession in question. Mackay also charged that Health and Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde, who was Trudeau's principal secretary when...
...probably not even recognize, the names of American conservatism--a long and deeply embedded tradition in this country. This would include Charles Eliot Norton, co-editor of the North American Review and James Russell Lowell, the editor of The Atlantic; Henry James and Henry Adams; Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More; Leanth Brooks, co-editor of the Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review; or more recently in political philosophy Russell Kirk and Leo Strauss. He seems to be singularly unacquainted with the history of Harvard, since four of the men, Norton, Lowell, Adams and Babbitt...
Guard Glenn Fine bombed from the corner for an early 8-6 Harvard lead, but an Elmer Love finger roll notched the score. The Crimson held Love, a svelte Colma, Calif., schoolboy star and the Lions' leading scorer, to nine points on the night...