Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Entrapment results if the idea for the crime comes from Government agents or informants, if the defendant is induced to participate, and if the defendant was not predisposed to commit the crime. According to Clarence Berman, 56, a retired environmental health inspector for Los Angeles County, some of his fellow jurors thought De Lorean was innocent of the charges, but they all believed that he had been entrapped and was, therefore, not guilty...
...good old stories have been worn down worse than river rocks. The oilman who re-created an entire Neiman-Marcus window display-gowns, gems, furs and all-in his living room one Christmas morn because his wife had said she had seen something in the window she wanted. The fellow who told LIFE magazine that he bought a Rolls-Royce because its powder-blue paint job matched his wife's favorite hat. Then there was H.L. Hunt, who, a Dallas editor once said, "would be the most dangerous man in America if he wasn't such a damn...
Dallas does not like losers, poor-mouthers, pessimists. Dallas does not fool much with the banking term negative net worth. Negative net worth, meaning, of course, you owe more than you got, is a term that dogs cotton farmers. "Fellow came by here the other day," a farm-supply dealer outside Lubbock once explained, "and told me that if he could just get back up to broke, he'd quit. Trouble is, he has to get back up to broke first...
Horse and rider become a single, and singular, Olympic animal. As if he were speaking of a fellow athlete, high-soaring Conrad Homfeld of the U.S., here clearing a jump, said his favorite stallion, Abdullah, was "obviously very talented." And quite a draw to boot. Capacity crowds packed the Fair banks Ranch Country Club, transformed into a picture-book endurance course, and the venerable Santa Anita race track's show jumping and dressage ring. With precise rounds in the individual three-day event, Mark Todd, an Auckland dairy farmer, galloped to New Zealand's first equestrian gold medal...
...want to take. "I rather like my reputation, actually," he said when he turned 50. "That of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer. It's rather an attractive image." Some measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Burton, like his friend and fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, poured his out by the bucketful until, at last, there was nothing left. -By Gerald Clarke