Word: jai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each of the four Harvard substitutes--sabreman Kerry Sulkowicz and Jim Goldenring, and foilsmen Peter Gordon and Jai Rho--who came in during the last of the three fencing rounds triumphed, allowing only five touches against themselves...
...name, Kim said, was "the Patriarch." Though he had, on orders from the Korean CIA, destroyed the Ice Mountain list of 40 to 50 Congressmen the agency wanted to buy, Kim said he remembered many of the names and had given them to the committee staff. Another embassy defector, Jai Hyon Lee, repeated a now familiar story of how he had accidentally surprised Ambassador Kim Dong Jo in his office stuffing envelopes containing cash into a briefcase. Asked where he was going with the money, Ambassador Kim replied, "To the Capitol...
...look at the fund's real estate mess frightened away Lomas & Nettleton, a Dallas real estate financing company that had been invited in as a comanager. Among the hundreds of obligations are loans to owners of race tracks, jai-alai frontons, boat slips, tennis courts and a $5 million mortgage on Ohio's Cathedral of Tomorrow, whose minister, Sawdust Evangelist Rex Humbard, likes to exhort: "You'd better straighten out and fly right with God." Last year $52 million was on loan to parties-in-interest," meaning institutions or individuals who have business or fiduciary relations with...
Waves of revulsion and loathing swept over me while I was reading your article on the Mafia [May 16]. I personally feel guilty patronizing a vending machine while millions of good citizens run to the race tracks, dog tracks, jai alai, etc., with their tongues hanging out for a piece of the action. If only people had enough sense and decency to boycott all Mafia enterprises...
...during the bombardment. He took pictures the next day in the smoke and the rubble, 48 hours before the Nationalists occupied the town. In 1970 he sneaked a mineral-water bottle filled with pure alcohol into the San Sebastian fronton, where Franco was attending an international jai alai tournament. Elosegi doused himself with alcohol, set it afire, and jumped into the arena from the second balcony, shouting, "Cora Euzkadi Askatuta!" (long live the free Basque country) and "Guernica, Guernica...