Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back home in Brooklyn, Mailer seems bemused by such deference, somehow bruised by kid gloves. "He's liking being a celebrity less," says former Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres, Mailer's friend and sparring partner. "I think he's tired of the image." And the author's legends do lag well behind substantial changes that he has made in his life...
...including former Yale President Dr. Kingman Brewster, former Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...
This is an error worthy of a Don Buddin, Andre Rogers, Jose Arcia, or Paul Popovich...
...against DEA and IRS agents. Last December a federal indictment in Georgia said that a state police sergeant and a local deputy sheriff were confederates in a 25-person smuggling ring. In one week in February, a Los Angeles deputy sheriff, a California-based DEA agent and a San Jose policeman were charged with selling coke. Says Prosecutor Walsh: "I'm surprised, frankly, that there isn't more of that sort of thing, with the temptations of that kind of money...
...downpours weakened dams, washed out roads, and unleashed murderous mud slides. Three-year-old John Price was crushed to death in his bedroom when a 300-ft.-wide wall of mud swept down a hillside and crashed into his parents' Clear Lake home. Alviso, a low-lying San Jose neighborhood, was suddenly transformed into a 6-ft.-deep lake when floodwaters overflowed the banks of a nearby creek. Said San Jose Fire Department Captain Jerry Hubbard: "The rain filled Alviso like a bathtub...