Word: howe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, D.C., plainclothes policewoman contended that Louisiana Democratic Congressman Joe Waggon-ner Jr. drove up in his car and offered to pay her $50 for an oral sex act. Utah Democratic Congressman Allan Howe allegedly approached two Salt Lake City police decoy prostitutes and promised them $20 if they would show him "a little fun" at their place. Former Judge (and failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee) G. Harrold Carswell has been indicted on charges of making advances to a vice-squad policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. Dallas police have accused ex-Army Major General (and right-wing activist) Edwin Walker...
...World of Our Fathers, Howe...
...they do not know where or when it might strike. Asked Connecticut Congressional Delegate William Williams impatiently: "Where is Bushnell? Why don't he attempt something? When will or can be a more proper time than is or has been?" The answers might well become clear when General William Howe's brother, Admiral Richard Howe, arrives in New York with a reinforcing fleet later this month (see THE NATION). What could be a better target for the Turtle than the admiral's mighty flagship, the 64-gun Eagle...
...menace. Boston had so many cases that the disease helped deter General George Washington from trying to fight his way into the city last spring. Said he: "If we escape the small pox in this camp and the country around about, it will be miraculous." Only after General Howe evacuated the city did Washington send in 500 of his men who had already had the disease...
Which will it be? The British armada now invading New York must fill even the redoubtable General Washington with foreboding. If the Howe brothers succeed in driving Washington out of New York, they can probably seize the whole Hudson Valley and cut America in half. Will Americans then have the courage and stamina to fight on? Yet even an American triumph, as miraculous as it now seems to many skeptics, will bring new problems. Britain can survive without its American Colonies, but the outcome for America, despite its vast riches and its ingenious people, is by no means clear...