Word: ohioans
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...would buy something if you'd take my Visa," a particularly stiff Ohioan said the other...
...down to let them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde. On the day after New Year's in 1984, Kosar passed a storied Nebraska team silly in the Orange Bowl, and Miami won its first national championship...
...arsenals of John Glenn and Walter Mondale seemed to pack less punch. After the Ohioan's resounding defeat in Iowa, Media Strategist David Sawyer abruptly switched from a "video resume" of Glenn's accomplishments to direct, no-nonsense voter appeals. Said Sawyer: "Everyone agreed we had to do something dramatic." Six days before the primary, Glenn taped a five-minute address in the home of a Nashua, N.H., supporter, urging voters to display their Yankee independence. The unedited videotape was rushed to Boston's station WBZ by helicopter seven minutes before its scheduled broadcast time. The spot...
...Billy Milligan is not, strictly speaking, a crusade for prison reform or compassion for criminals. But Daniel Keyes' psychological narrative has that effect, unmistakably. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, Keyes paints a terrifying picture of the mental and legal predicament of one William Stanley Milligan, a 22-year-old Ohioan accused of three 1977 rapes on the campus of Ohio State University...
While the President fiddled, a number of his appointees diddled, in a truly baroque spree of systematic stealing. Attorney General Harry Daugherty was perhaps the most clever and rapacious. Daugherty shared a Washington house with one Jess Smith, a fellow Ohioan and a proven fixer and bribe taker. Smith granted favors and made promises that only the Attorney General could deliver, kept up to half a million dollars buried in a friend's backyard and walked around wearing a money belt filled with 75 $1,000 bills. When the jig was nearly up, Smith committed suicide. To thwart...