Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Half a Loaf or Nothing. Florida's most famous precedent for such deals in capital cases arose from the baffling disappearance of respected Palm Beach Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth and his wife in 1955. When Prosecutor Philip O'Connell finally cracked the case six years later, still with not even a body as evidence, he did so by granting immunity to a thug named Bobby Lincoln, who brazenly testified that he had bludgeoned the Chillingworths and drowned them in the Atlantic. He had been hired by Judge Joseph A. Peel, said Lincoln, because Peel feared that Chillingworth...
...circumstantial and neither man would confess anything. Then Gebhardt's lawyer, who under Florida law had no way of learning the strength, or weakness, of the case against his client, offered the deal that did the police's work for them. "It was half a loaf or nothing," insisted Prosecutor Richard Gerstein. "In addition, the one who initiated the murder was killing his own parents and would inherit their estate if not convicted of murder." Unless Worthington now cops out, Gerstein must, of course, still persuade a jury that he is guilty. As for Confessed Murderer Gebhardt...
...Andalusian town, a baker produces bread that is more like stone. But everybody eats it without complaint because the baker grandly signs his initials on each loaf. In Spain, illusions of grandeur are respected. "To us, illusion is a weakness to recognize and overcome," writes Honor Tracy...
...swept in under fighter escort. As the plane swung sharply to a halt, out stepped the new U.S. ambassador, General Maxwell D. Taylor, fresh in shining sharkskin and a bright resolve. The Viet Cong had sworn to kill him, and indeed a terrorist carrying a homemade grenade in a loaf of bread had been captured just yards from the U.S. embassy the day before. But Max Taylor figured to stick around a while -at least until after the U.S. election...
...milling industry," said Chairman Philip W. Pillsbury of Pillsbury, "that a good deal of bakery flour is sold at a loss." Since the Korean war, says he, the millers' profit margin in the sale of bakery flour has held at 1% of the retail price of a loaf of white bread. Actually, argues Pillsbury, the Government has a bigger hand than the millers in setting prices. The cost of wheat makes up five-sixths of the flour price, and Government crop-support programs are the major factor in determining the wheat price...