Word: lynchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is especially true in state and local courts, where most of American justice is meted out. "In some ways we now function just as we did in the days of Charles Dickens," says Judge James Lynch, chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court...
...estimated budget for the project is $540 million, Peter Lynch, MBTA project coordinator for development, said yesterday. About 2000 workers will take part in the construction, which will extend several miles to Alewife...
...energetic man full time. He planned to teach a course at Harvard on the press and politics, write a book about his 40-year career as a journalist, consult two or three days a week on various Time Inc. projects, serve on the boards of the Washington Star, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and the Ford Foundation, among others...
...liberalized rules governing contraception, and successfully led a long and bitter legislative campaign for legal abortion. The new "Euro-President" quickly gave the Parliament an early sample of the no-nonsense grit behind her gentle smile. When Protestant Ulster Unionist the Rev. Ian Paisley heckled Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch for delivering part of his speech in Irish Gaelic, Veil rapped her gavel and, in softly spoken French, effectively told him to shut...
...jokes, executed with no discernible flair. The writers have done little more than round up the usual array of stereotyped characters: a horny fat boy, a bespectacled nerd, a conceited stud, busty girls and so on. Once these kids and the head counselors (Murray for the boys and Kate Lynch for the girls) are introduced, the film meanders aimlessly. Half the time, Meatballs forgets to exploit the gags that it so laboriously sets up. No sooner do we learn, for instance, that Camp Northstar is in the throes of a power blackout or a parents' day than the film...