Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unhappy with some of his rulings. Among them: Claiborne's occasional refusal to issue search warrants and his dismissal of several cases brought before him by the U.S. Government. Oscar Goodman, Claiborne's chief counsel, says that the judge is a victim of the long-running feud between federal lawmen and the Nevada Establishment. Says he: "The feds have tried to create the picture that we're all crooks and Mafia soldiers crawling around here...
...Deficit Feud...
Because of it, the President's men feud, and the recovery may be stunted...
...trial is going on, so much the better; people can be made to answer at a trial, and the ring of lie clanking against truth tells something about them. A slick Florida lawyer has been shot to death and left to ruin the upholstery of his fancy car. A feud among Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif., feeds on itself so long and so bloodily that one participant admits being in jail is a relief. Three acquaintances booze away the afternoon in a country bar in Iowa, and a few hours later one of them has been shotgunned out of this...
DIED. Jim ("Grandpa") McCoy, 99, patriarch of the Kentucky McCoys and the last survivor of the violent 19th century feud with the West Virginia Hatfields that took 30 to 50 lives over 30 years; of congestive heart failure; in Liberty, Ky. Although bloodshed between the rural Appalachian clans ceased long ago, it was not until May 1976 that former Coal Miner McCoy and the late Willis Hatfield, then 88, shook hands to end America's most famous misunderstanding, the origins of which are unknown. Last week, to the strains of Amazing Grace, the McCoys gathered to pay their last...