Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world according to Garp, we are obliged to remember everything." Or are forced to--like the Ellen Jamesians, bizarre creatures that flit through this often terrifying and macabre book. The Ellen Jamesians are women who have cut out their tongues in order to remember the case of Ellen James. Ellen James was an 11-year-old girl who was raped; her rapists then cut out her tongue to prevent her from describing them. What they of course forgot was that Ellen James could write. She wrote descriptions of her assailants, and they were caught. Later she comes to live with...
...live like Pappy did on the frontier." But Osterberg argues that the absence of running water is no health threat because he uses the bathroom of a college building five blocks away. He has no intention of flying the coop, and is appealing the eviction order in court...
...Christians nor their foes are backing away from the prospect Of more slaughter. "As long as the Syrians are in Lebanon, there is no peace," warned Chamoun last week. Equally adamant was Syrian President Hafez Assad, who insisted that his troops had opened fire on the Christians in order to "establish the authority of the Sarkis government." But when the Lebanese President proposed that a buffer force of Lebanese soldiers be deployed between the Christians and Syrians, Assad had a brusque reply: "There is no Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed a hasty tour...
...those appearing to be on court business inside. Cottonreader and two associates approached but were told they could not enter on the pretext they might incite a riot. Most of the marchers returned with blankets and camped out on the front lawn of the building until a court order removed them...
...lawyer from the NAACP, George E. Hairston of New York, came into a head-on confrontation with Cullman County Judge Jack Riley. Judge Riley told Hairston at one point in the trial, "We may yet have to send you to law school." At times during the trial, Riley would order Hairston to remained confined to his seat and not move. Riley also overruled every objection that Mims and Hairston made, and had the jury under a suppression motion--meaning that the all-white jury received information from the judge. Mims raised a case tried in another court in Georgia where...