Word: meeker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with his thumb after his comrade sees it and begins to wait, "That cockroach is going to live longer than I am!" "Now," Meeker says, after performing his own little execution, "you've got the edge...
...David B. Meeker, chairman of the manufacturers' association, said yesterday that he was sure all the corporations present had equal opportunity programs because equal opportunity is the "law of the land." He said, under student questioning, that there are many problems with such a program...
...Meeker added, "Industry and business are recast in an adversary role with the consumer" because of campaigns by media and consumer groups...
Taste for Danger. Some German papers criticized Meeker as a soldier of fortune, but most West Germans hailed him as a hero, a latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, Meeker says he was paid $3,900 for each mission, and money was not the question. His friends and former colleagues believe him. A handsome, mustachioed graduate of Columbia University who speaks six languages, he is described by a U.S. Army official as "one of those kinds of guys"-a Terry-and-the-Pirates type of airman with a taste for danger. Flying assault and rescue missions in Viet...
...Czechs immediately branded Meeker "a bandit" and charged that their troops had been fired on before they began shooting ("Goddamnedest lie I ever heard," said Meeker. "The most dangerous weapon on board was a ballpoint pen."). Though the West Germans were uncomfortably mulling over the various laws he had broken, including filing false flight plans, he is likely to get off with a wrist slap. More worrisome to Meeker were the uninsured damages to the helicopter, which could cost him anywhere from $23,000 to $39,000-unless a benefactor turns up to bail...