Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gang member posing as a Merrill Lynch executive called First Chicago to arrange the transfer of $24 million to the account of "Lord Investments" in Vienna's Creditanstalt bank. He first heard a taped message: "This is First Chicago transfer operations. Your transaction is being recorded." Unfazed, the caller placed the order with one of Taylor's unwitting co-workers. Taylor pretended to phone another Merrill Lynch official for backup confirmation. He really called the Chicago home of Bailey, who gave an authentic-sounding "approval" as the tape rolled. The $24 million was promptly wired to New York's Citibank...
Williams, who admits he is "prejudiced against anything that isn't white," had claimed that he was acting on orders of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, a white supremacist group that authorities broke up in 1985. Behind bars, Williams insisted that was loose talk, and the Secret Service was inclined to agree. Said Secret Service Spokesman Rich Adams: "There is no organized plot out there to assassinate Jesse Jackson...
...turning it to political advantage. The darts just seem to pass through him. "I never lost a minute's sleep over criticism, and I never shall," he declares. Senators who oppose him on key issues, he says, simply lack the facts or the political courage. And the uncommitted? "The Lord spoke of those who are neither hot nor cold. He said, 'I spew them out of my mouth,' and I think a lot of folks are crying out to be spewed...
Helms' father, known respectfully as "Mr. Jesse," was police chief and stood a full head above 6 ft. One Christmas he gave his son a plaque engraved with the words SON, THE LORD DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU TO WIN. HE JUST EXPECTS YOU TO TRY. The plaque hangs beside Helms' Senate desk, emboldening him in his sometimes lonely crusades. High School Principal Ray House preached another homily that had a profound influence on young Jesse: "With hard work, nothing is impossible...
...glossy wives of moneyed men diminished his serious reputation as it increased his notoriety. He began to take on the appearance of a piffler, a court jester to such rich beauties as Babe Paley, wife of longtime CBS Chairman William Paley, and Slim Keith, wife of British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point -- "SO educational," he insisted -- was to connect improbable people through a linkage...