Word: oed
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...pulled a .22-cal. gun, shot a guard and released six other inmates from their cells. The seven fled to the roof, thence over an 18-ft.-high chain link fence. By Saturday, searchers had caught four fugitives, but Gilbert and two others remained free. Corrections Secretary O. Lane McCotter authorized pursuers to shoot to kill if necessary...
...wonder then that the fight shaping up over Judge Robert Bork, 60, the conservative legal scholar nominated by Reagan last week, promises to be far fiercer than anything that met the President's earlier appointments of Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. By giving the court's right wing a decisive fifth vote, the addition of Bork could be as pivotal as the 1962 appointment of Arthur Goldberg, which consolidated the liberal majority that worked the Warren Court revolution...
...comfortable with Bork's judicial philosophy. The operative terms of Bork's legal vocabulary are "strict" and "narrow." Rights must appear in the text of the Constitution before they can be enforced by the court. Accordingly, he rejects such notions as a broad constitutional right to privacy, which William O. Douglas detected in 1965 by peering into the "penumbras" of several constitutional guarantees, including the Fourth Amendment right to be secure in one's home. Asked recently by TIME if he found a right to privacy anywhere in the Constitution, Bork's reply was unequivocal...
What she cares about, has always cared about, is music. Gary Garland remembers the child Whitney, "dressed up in mother's gowns, down in the basement, singing her lungs out like she was in Madison Square Garden." At eleven, Whitney made her solo debut singing Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah at the local Baptist church. "I was scared to death," she recalls. "I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in a trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying...
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