Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possession of stolen property ("He catches the summers here," chides a buddy. "Some people go to the Hamptons") says it is a world apart from Riker's Island. "Over there it's a diseased cesspool," says McMurray. "Am I right or wrong," he yells to a dozen fellow diggers. "Right!" they holler, then go back to shoveling dirt into the gash that holds the ten coffins that Charlie Garcia has placed in their charge. "It's one germ after another [at Riker's Island]. If you don't have anything wrong with you going...
Although Bubu landed on his feet, many fellow felines have been less fortunate. Taking the law into their own hands, ailurophobes around West Germany have launched a campaign to kill more cats than curiosity itself. Some have shot the creatures with air pistols or flung them to the ground from sixth-floor balconies. Others have poisoned, strangled, axed or blinded cats. Their rationale: cats gobble up plants, scratch the paint off cars and even startle innocents by peering at them through windows. As a result, an estimated 300,000 cats, perhaps 10% of West Germany's feline population, were...
...small children carried to him by their parents, and blessed elderly cripples too weak even to speak. Finally, the Pope paused at the front of the grotto to pray in silence. For ten minutes he knelt, his head bowed, occasionally seeming to wipe away tears. Then he told his fellow pilgrims, "Faith assures us that the Lord can and wants to draw good from evil. Neither just nor unjust, suffering remains difficult to understand and difficult to accept, even for those who have faith." He might have been talking about himself...
...publisher and purveyor of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. The diaries fiasco, which led to the ouster of two top editors, has cost the magazine about 10% of its circulation, an estimated $3.8 million in circulation and advertising income, and much of its credibility among fellow reporters...
...most famous remarks of superpower brinkmanship, Dean Rusk remarked, as Soviet ships steamed home from Cuba with the rockets on their decks, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked." In negotiating the understanding that ended the crisis, Andrei Gromyko's deputy, Vasily Kuznetsov, said sternly to his American counterpart, John McCloy, "You Americans will never be able to do this to us again." It was largely the humiliation of that episode that impelled the Soviet Union to undertake its 20-year buildup, of which the SS-20 program is one of the most troublesome...