Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembled Action Lines claimed a high solution rate-typically, three out of four problems they tackle-and a few recounted triumphs that would help win a district attorney reelection. Herb Brown says he has run unscrupulous hearing-aid salesmen out of New Jersey, and aided in the conviction of a fraudulent home repairer on 17 counts of embezzlement. Sharon Tucker of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Hotline column helped a woman settle out of court with an auto mechanic who had charged $384 for a transmission job advertised...
ENGELHARD had his own self-serving arguments to explain his lack of criticism of the white minority regime. In 1966, Engelhard received a "brotherhood" award from a New Jersey religious council while hundreds outside the banquet hotel protested Engelhard's support for apartheid, chanting "Brotherhood can't be bought." Inside the hotel, Engelhard tried to justify his activities to the guests assembled to honor him: "You have certain obligations as a guest in the country in which you do business. One of these obligations consists of not criticizing what they do at home, since you don't want them...
...senior Al MacMurray, the simplicity of that direct query captures the heart of his current Harvard football career. And every day, when he opens his locker to the Crimson jersey bearing No. 98, the same newspaper page with the same message stares him in the face...
...outcome of the meet was never in question. As early as the quarter-mile mark, only one Brown jersey appeared among the mass of red ones leading the pack. As Coach Bill McCurdy noted, "The whole tribe was up there showing...
...Gerald Durrell can help it. The zoologist has long maintained a sanctuary for endangered species on the English Channel Island of Jersey and has scoured the world to collect threatened birds, mammals and reptiles. In his latest book, he wittily describes his efforts to help the nonhuman population of Mauritius and neighboring islands. Durrell's adventures have an engaging lunacy that relieves their underlying tension. He and his party risked bites from golden fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness...