Word: nick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Americans everywhere, the local residents of Dixon and Davenport fumed and spatted about Prohibition, which brought violence even to Davenport: the mysterious shooting and murder of Bootleg Kingpin Nick Coin on the street after raids on sub rosa saloons...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith at the height of the Rhodesian civil war and remained on the books after black nationalists took over the government of newly independent Zimbabwe last April. (The law was repealed only after the Tekere trial began.) At the advice of their Gibraltar-born white lawyer, Nick McNally, the defendants claimed that they were only trying to protect government officials from a "terrorist" plot on their lives...
...Richard Pipes. That man riding forth with car instead of sleigh Believes that conservation is a must But cars--they're part of the American way; He finds his cheer in a handful of rust. His new job he won in a landslide, So now he, not Nick, prepares to ride. He fired all the reindeer--they demanded the minimum wage. He banned all Christmas spirits for elves who were underage. 'The Workshop has to get moving again,' He told toymakers, craftsmen and elves; But the ones that he blessed with his friendship Were the ones who made guns...
...power struggle between Poland's newly independent labor movement and the Warsaw regime of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has become an international suspense serial, one showdown giving way to the next, each resolved in the nick of time. From a shipyard in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, the drama has radiated across Poland and the East bloc. Now it is affecting Western Europe and the U.S. as well...
...M.P.s who arrive early for their committee meeting, kick off Stoppard's introductory exchange of foreign phrases somewhat awkwardly; these are strange lines to recite, and would benefit from a touch less caricature, a touch more natural ease. But both, along with their fellow committee members--played by Nick D' Arienzo, Anne Troy, and Tom Blumenfeld--quickly achieve a nice pace and a smooth ensemble, broken only infrequently by mistimed punchlines or fumbled bits of business with the many panties cluttering the stage...