Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbor emerged from Elmer Steffes' white farmhouse amid the gentle bluffs of southwest Iowa. "You might as well go home--and take your dog with . you," said Steffes' 23-year-old daughter Kay, in a bitter undertone that the neighbor did not hear. Inside the house, Elmer, 47, a sturdy, barrel-chested man, explained he is losing his 460-acre farm and suspected that the neighbor might have been snooping around for the bank that will seize his property. "You can't be too sure of anybody these days," Steffes said...
...Black Panther survivors of the COINTELPRO operation frame-up and murder what it means to be targeted as terrorist by the government. Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a Black Panther incarcerated for 15 years, for a murder he did not commit, is only now having his case reopened...
...more accurately a brown dwarf." This kind of quasi-star, whose existence was first theorized by Shiv Sharan Kumar, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, has never been observed directly before. Said Kumar of the Arizona sighting: "People wish for planets, but these are not them." - By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...effort to snatch victory from the jaws of what was shaping up as defeat. "IBM didn't like having this black eye," says Egil Juliussen, chairman of Future Computing. "They wanted to figure out a way to help the machine along, and they did." #151; By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt...