Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such an event. Rather than thinking about and sympathizing with the fear which motivated the rally, he complained about the noise which disturbed his studying. Another was even more annoyed: "They don't have to be so militant. Why don't they just ask for more police protection?" My friend seems to think violence against women need not concern him. Women alone are respoonsible for protecting themselves, and men do not need to change their behavior...
...into a Soviet military client, albeit one that even the Kremlin has trouble controlling. The Soviets are his principal supplier of weaponry, and he had purchased more than $12 billion worth of Soviet hardware by the early 1980s. The U.S., he says, is the "devil," the Soviets are a "friend...
...Blay-Miezah in 1972 when the Ghanaian was being held in a Pennsylvania prison after failing to pay a large bill at Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. After Ellis assisted him in posting bond and paying off the hotel bill, Blay-Miezah promised to pay back his new friend "with considerable interest" and took him on as his partner in the trust deal. Ellis maintains that the trust is legitimate, saying, "I still have faith that the long-suffering investors will be compensated...
...Jewish Gangster Meyer Lansky to Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians and a former President of Colombia who was a close friend of former President Jimmy Carter's. Clear...
...until, some 20 years later, he died of drink and complications in a New York City hospital. The task of being a law unto himself entailed the remorseless exploitation of intimates, casual acquaintances and total strangers. The poet proved himself up to such demands. "I am the most unreliable friend that ever was," he confessed in a letter in 1934, and he was not kidding. He agreed to be best man at the wedding of Poet Vernon Watkins, his closest and most loyal confidant, and then failed to show up for the ceremony. To his credit, Thomas usually knew when...