Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LINDSAY looked elegantly dashing in a dark blue suit and blue tie. We met in his basement office, where the walls are decorated with drawings by his children, a "Shirley Temple for President" poster, and a selection of gilt-framed old prints. There is also a fine Siamese silk-screen of a night-black heron...
...edge. But Curtis plods along. "I've never won an election on personality," he readily admits. He is ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, and his expertise in money matters rivals that of anyone in government today. He has a lawyer's pernickety eye for the fine print in legislation, has often voted against bills that he co-sponsored because they were diluted by minor amendments to which he objected. But while he impresses voters with his seriousness, integrity and knowledge, he also bores them with more details about fiscal policy than they want to know...
...Salaam's sprawling Kariakoo market, a screaming mob halted buses and dragged off African girls wearing tight dresses or miniskirts. The girls were beaten and some had their clothes ripped off. With fine impartiality, the mob also beat up youths wearing tight-fitting satiny pants. It was "cultural revolution," African style...
...manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary, on the ground that the Virginia law violated his constitutional rights to religious freedom...
...Yeah, that's what I thought," he said. "Now isn't that a fine name?" And with that he started walking back up the aisle to his seat at the front of the plane, still holding me in tow by my hand, while he repeated his joke to the reporters on either side of him, "The Haaaaarvard CRIMson. Now isn't that a fahn name...