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Word: faulk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Mary Greenhill had a very impressive showing in her match at the Invitational with an amazing win in the first round against Princeton's Mary Faulk...

Author: By Ara B. Gershengorn, | Title: Holleran Wins Princeton Tourney | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...father, Clarke relates, was a charming con man named Arch Persons, a bad-check artist who worked, when he worked, as a promoter for a carnival performer called the Great Pasha, whose specialty was being buried alive. His mother was a small-town Alabama beauty named Lillie Mae Faulk, who eventually chucked the shiftless Arch, headed for New York City and changed her name to Nina because it sounded more sophisticated. Little Truman was parked for much of his childhood in a Southern-gothic household of eccentric cousins in Monroeville, Ala. But Clarke stresses that his most agonizing early memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Troubles of the Tiny Terror CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...Superstar trial lawyers like Boston's F. Lee Bailey and San Francisco's Melvin Belli regularly command flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median annual income in approximately 44 hours. Admits former Watergate Special Prosecutor James F. Neal, now practicing law in Nashville: "Frankly, I don't want to disclose my hourly rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fat Fees | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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