Word: kangaroos
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...return for his candid approach to the great issues of the day, Agnew has been mocked, falsely accused and publicly humiliated. He has been unfairly tried by a kangaroo court, the jury being the press. And his own Government has turned on him as a scapegoat for others' misdeeds...
...Kennedy: "The deliberate campaign of abuse to which he is being subjected should be ended now. The White House and the Department of Justice have an obligation of fundamental fairness to the Vice President to let the investigation take its course, free of the pervasive current atmosphere of a kangaroo trial by 'undisclosed sources.' Vice President Agnew has conducted himself with dignity in recent weeks. He deserves the nation's respect for his demeanor in this unprecedented situation...
...tell you the truth, I didn't blame the guy. All along he had been coming up with simple names like "frog," "mouse," "cat." And then, out of the blue, he comes up with a complicated name like "hippopotamus." I mean, even "elephant" was stretching things a bit, and "kangaroo" was a positive extreme. But "hippopotamus"??? I said to him, "Couldn't you just call it a 'fat' or, at most, a 'fattamus?' But no, the guy was hung-up on "hippopotamus...
United States of America. The show kangaroo trial of eight Vietnam Veterans against the War continues in Gainesville, Florida. Seven Vets and one sympathizer are accused by a couple of unstable informers of conspiring to use slingshots and bows and arrows to disrupt the Republican Convention last year...
...away pilots seeking to land says PISS OFF. To the north, lights from the Woomera range and tracking station, used for guiding American astronauts, glow in the night. To the east, the moonlit rails turn molten in the Popsicle-or-ange sunrise. This is the time of day a kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...