Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...areas and is kept away from other convicts. Even so, he has developed a bad case of the shakes. He is suspicious of his guards and does not even dare turn for comfort to the prison chaplain. One reason is omerta, the Mafia oath of silence. Another is the fact that Dellacroce, in one of his favorite disguises, likes to don a clerical collar and go about as "Father O'Neill" (a play on a common mispronunciation of his first name). Lillo has no yearning for the last rites, least of all as administered by the Little Lamb...
...hand isn't there," said a State Department aide about the latest unrest, "but we have no evidence. This isn't Afghanistan [where a military coup brought a pro-Moscow regime to power]. They don't want to contest us on this issue." The Russians, in fact, were suffering more immediately from the oilworkers' strike than the West was. While the Shah's allies worried about the potential future loss of oil exports, a vital pipeline that supplies 10 billion cubic meters per year of Iranian natural gas to military installations and industries...
...fact, concerned anthropologists and churchmen in Brazil believe that emancipation will mean bondage and even death for the Indians. The real motive behind the government's move, they charge, is to gradually open up the Indians' land to private developers. Said Anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro: "The decree will mean the extinction of the Indians as tribal peoples, as their land is gobbled up by greedy farmers, ranchers, mining companies and speculators who have long been awaiting this moment...
...planned corporate support, and Fluor's Riyadh connections, caused some to wonder whether the center, under so loose a rein, would truly qualify as an academic enterprise. Asked a faculty critic: "Are we following an industrial model or an academic model?" Such doubts were aggravated by the fact that Hubbard presented the planned center to the faculty senate as a fait accompli, leaving no room for debate. Then, too, there was Fluor's ambiguous role. Said he: "People can say I have selfish interests, and obviously I have some. But I believe any time information is available, better...
Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter...