Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party, inevitably, took note. It repeatedly refused to approve Falun Gong conventions, and a year ago, Li left China at the apparent urging of authorities. He was hardly friendless upon arrival in the U.S.: in 1996 Houston's mayor proclaimed a Li Hongzhi Day--and there are Falun Gong chapters in eight countries and 21 American states. Li's finances seem robust, although it's unclear how much control he has over his organization...
...uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...mainstream right is to avoid being tainted with the acts of a lunatic fringe, it must repudiate the ideological assumptions that motivated me as a young extremist and that animate the Israeli far right today--especially the notion that the Jews are a friendless people, opposed by the entire world. And it must re-examine the consequences of centralizing the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Both Dr. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron mass murderer, and Yigal Amir emerged from politically right-wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust...
When it comes to Fuhrman, Los Angeles correspondent Sylvester Monroe reports, "everyone is running for the tall grass." Today, Robert Tourtelot, Fuhrman's attorney, held a press conference to tell the world that he had dropped his friendless client because he was "profoundly disgusted and horrified" by the racial slurs and personal philosophy contained on tapes of the former LAPD detective. "This is simply a matter of trying to get away from the taint of Fuhrman," says Monroe. "But it's a bit disingenuous. All of these people, from Marcia Clark to the Los Angeles Police Department, knew about Fuhrman...
...marriage to the Governor. Walsh recounts how Worby "insisted to me for nearly a year that she felt loved and embraced as the first lady of West Virginia before breaking down and admitting that she actually cried half the time during that period, almost bereft, feeling deeply alone and friendless ... Even after she acknowledged her life was less than the fairy tale she presented to the public, Rachael worried that her comments might reflect negatively on Gaston...