Word: hook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only five hours of actual deliberation. It seems that one of the jurors had a plane to catch to South Africa on Friday, with a nonrefundable ticket. King, 64, who has survived a 1985 tax-evasion case, three grand jury probes and an fbi sting, had wriggled off the hook again, possibly because of airline pricing policies. "The champion will retain his title on a draw," declared King spokesman Mike Marley...
...lending billions of dollars to Mexico. "Why did we send them $50 billion?" the maverick Republican asks. "Because bonds were coming due, my friends!" And he cuts the air with a karate chop. "So we got the New York bankers--Citibank, Chase Manhattan and Goldman Sachs--off the hook. But guess who's on the hook? You and your children and grandchildren!" The crowd applauds enthusiastically--as it does each time Buchanan sets up and knocks down another alleged enemy of the American worker, from trade agreements to the United Nations. Afterward, Mitchell concedes that he isn't clear exactly...
...much larger lump in his throat than mine, I can certainly bring myself to applaud. Not too loud though, and without any cheering--an ambivalent applause. Arafat does not deserve to be received with whole-hearted approval and respect. The Arafat of today should not be let off the hook for the crimes he committed yesterday. As he gets up to speak he should feel the same lump in his throat which he has caused so many others to feel...
...that), but Morning in the Burned House reveals an authorial voice that is far more complex. Make no mistake, Atwood's voice is, and always has been, undeniably female. Although she has retreated some from the stance of her now famous epigram "you fit into me/like a hook into an eye/a fish hook/an open eye," the idea of Atwood-as-radical is still strong. But Atwood also understands instinctually the difference between politically-charged writing and propaganda...
Which they couldn't. Eventually the judge let Beatrice off the hook--though post-trial reports from the federal Environmental Protection Agency supported the plaintiffs' claim against the food giant. Schlichtmann then settled with Grace for $8 million, not enough to cover his firm's bankrupting debts or get back his repossessed Porsche...