Word: greatly
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Friends of the Family. Mosley, now 40, is a man whom Mills describes as having "a great, almost warlike hostility for criminals-a hatred that is an outgrowth of, and never overshadows, his love for the law." It is almost as if he knows, as the trial begins, that the process of law to which he has devoted his life will probably set the defendant free. First comes the jury selection. "I need twelve men who can agree unanimously that the defendants are guilty," says Mosley. But if the defense gets one man who refuses to cast a guilty vote...
...Blighted Coast. Western influence has set in, and not only in Bulgaria. Perched all day on the rocks overlooking the beaches reserved for overseas nudists in Rumania, the natives happily ogle the great expanses of German and Scandinavian flesh stretched out below. In discotheques all along the Black Sea coast, local girls dancing with tourists to Kama Sutra's record of Didn't Want to Have to Do It have been known to offer themselves for the night simply for a bottle of Ambre Solaire sun lotion...
Woodford views his anti-Establishmentarian invention with a certain amount of humanitarianism, well-laced with some simple cynicism: "It's great for certain situations when it's unprofitable to have hair, or at least too much hair. Since what some employers care about is appearance, that's what they get. Maybe that's all they deserve...
...system sometimes flopped. In 1966 the Mets drafted as their first choice Catcher Steve Chilcott, passing up hard-hitting Reggie Jackson. Chilcott has never played a major league game, while Jackson?who has already hit 45 home runs for Oakland this season?is developing into one of baseball's great sluggers. Sometimes, though, the Mets had better luck. That same year, for example, they picked up a handsome young pitcher named George Thomas Seaver...
From whom else could pre-mechamcal civilizations have learned to move the stones for the pyramids or the Mayan cities or the great carved heads of Easter Island? After all, asks Däniken, are not the legends of many lands filled with stories of godlike visitors from the sky, riding in fiery chariots or on iron wings, arriving like "birds of thunder"? Indeed, the book's only illustration is drawing of an ancient stone carving found in Mexico in 1935. It looks remarkably like a figure bent over an instrument panel in a space capsule...