Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store, although politically affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist, Party, is financially independent, just like other affiliates in California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington State. O'Leary estimates that on a "good Saturday" the Harvard Square location attracts 40 to 50 people...
...basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory's manager, was arrested for the crime and, despite his protestations of innocence, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment by the Governor of Georgia, Frank was taken from his prison cell by persons unknown and lynched. Because Frank was Jewish, his case became a nationwide cause celebre for Jewish groups and political figures crusading against anti-Semitism...
...Barr of Georgia--the member of the House Judiciary Committee who wanted President Clinton to be impeached even before the Monica Lewinsky matter surfaced--thinks he knows what real America is about. When I testified before the House Judiciary Committee, Barr contrasted me (as well as three other law professors two with Jewish names and the third a black former judge) with "real America." Judge Higgenbotham and I both expressed resentment over being deemed something other than a real American. It reminded me of the bad old days of McCarthyism, where people who disagreed with the Senator from Wisconsin were...
Skip Holtz, 34, guided Connecticut to a school-record 10 wins this season before losing in the Division I-AA play-offs Saturday at top-ranked Georgia Southern. He compiled a winning percentage of .600 with a 34-23 record while head coach of the Huskies...
Fast forward to the early '80s. Now defunct Coleco, an electronic-toy company, noticed that unique, arty dolls made in Georgia and first sold at fairs had developed celeb cache. Amy Carter and Burt Reynolds were seen with them. Real People did a segment (bonus points if you remember host Sarah Purcell). Coleco began aggressively pushing the Cabbage Patch dolls--it sent them directly to reporters, a relatively new technique. Of course the Cabbage Patch Kids eventually sold well (more than $700 million) because kids liked them. But the adult hook--reporters thought the dolls looked "traditional," like the ones...