Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paint, but acknowledged it could not authenticate "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the chips came from the stolen works. Furthermore, its source for the photos was one William P. Youngworth III, a 38-year-old ex-con and antiques dealer who is on his way to jail again on a car-theft conviction. Officials from the Gardner asked to see the photos for themselves and demanded that the Herald and ABC News drop their request for exclusive rights to report on the museum's analysis. At week's end the drama had degenerated to a squabble among lawyers...
...ever serve time. "Even if he?s convicted," says Sancton, "he?ll remain free through an appeal process that could take as long as two years." This would mean the ailing 87-year-old would not be imprisoned until he was 90 ? which may make authorities less inclined to jail...
This isn't the first time the word criminal has come up in reference to Sue. In fact, her history since discovery has been a twisted tale of lawsuits, FBI raids, felony prosecutions and one of the longest criminal trials in South Dakota history--culminating in an 18-month jail sentence for Peter Larson, the man who dug Sue out of a hillside in the state...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...over, we've got the appeal... I will die before my son spends any more time in jail than...