Word: marion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bulletproof glass chamber borne on a flatbed truck. At a rally on the steps of City Hall, Mandela was presented with the key to the city by Mayor David Dinkins, one of the five African-American mayors who will welcome him on his trip (a sixth, Marion Barry of Washington, will be too embroiled in his trial on drug-possession and perjury charges to take part in his city's celebration...
Until federal agents and local police enticed him into smoking crack cocaine with a former girlfriend in a hotel room last January, Marion Barry had a grip on Washington's city hall that seemed so secure that he was referred to as "mayor for life." But last week, in the midst of jury selection for his trial on drug-possession and perjury charges, Barry called it quits. To remove the "shadow" of his legal difficulties from the election of his successor, he declared that he would not seek a fourth term. "Many of my supporters and political polls have indicated...
...point, he accused the Government of not only entrapping him but also actually trying to kill him with a potentially lethal dose of cocaine. He predicted that he could never be convicted because "in this town, all it takes is one juror saying 'I'm not going to convict Marion Barry. I don't care what...
...they tout a drug by name for a particular illness, they must include a thicket of fine print listing "contraindications" and "adverse reactions." Such verbosity is impractical on TV, but a few companies have sidestepped the problem by keeping their messages simple enough to be within the rules. Marion Merrell Dow, for example, has run TV ads for Nicorette that avoid mentioning what the drug...
...Healy has something on his mind that cannot be shared by either teaching or example. Then he is apt to write a column for his old friend Meg Greenfield, editorial-page editor of the Washington Post. Recently he wrote a wise, forbearing essay on the troubles of Washington Mayor Marion Barry, concluding with Donne's words, "Thou knowest this man's fall, thou knowest not his wrastling...