Word: kangaroos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Champions has none. My creator's general idea is to take order and make of it utter chaos. He reasons that we should all "adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos." And I can understand his problem; if your book jumped around in time and space like a kangaroo in heat, you'd want your readers to adapt to chaos...
...winner, Mike Walker, a Lancashire bricklayer, was not only signed by the Patriots last season but appeared in eight games. In March the three superfans are going to Australia to scout some rugby players who can reportedly punt a football 70 yds. Andelman confidently says that when the "Kangaroo Kid" makes his debut in pro football next season, "he'll be so good they'll have to change the rule book...
Economic exploitation forces Nathan Lee to steal from the white man's smokehouse to find his family. His arrest gives Ritt the chance to show the kangaroo justice blacks receive in white courts. After a speedy trial, Nathan lee is sentenced to one year of hard labor at a parish workcamp, a form of modern slavery only slightly more obvious than the scrip my grandfather was advanced...
...Gene spends the rest of the movie consumed by guilt. Did he shake the branch to make his friend fall because of Pinny's unrelenting competitiveness? Or to still a growing homosexual affection? In any case, the terrible truth about the tree limb comes out in a kangaroo court. Finny breaks his leg again, and the kindly old school doctor sets the bone. But there are complications, and Finny meets the kind of unexpected and untimely end that whisked the heroine of Love Story off to Valhalla...
Police suspect that some of the slayings are ordered by kangaroo courts that are settling scores between the I.R.A.'s feuding Provisional and Marxist-lining Official wings. Others have almost certainly been carried out by extremists of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association. Catholics fear that U.D.A. assassins are seeking indiscriminate revenge against anyone who happens to be Catholic. Militant Ulster Vanguard Leader William Craig recently told an Orange Order rally that in retaliating against I.R.A. violence, "it will not be possible to choose between friend and foe in the Roman Catholic community...