Word: paladins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things are supposed to be harder in life than to watch your friends become very successful. But when I visit Erich and Max, instead of being consumed by jealousy, I slip into the flow of discussion, debating what kind of weaponry a Paladin should wield or the advantages of the bec de corbin over a standard battle ax. The nuances of games come naturally to me. And spending time with them takes me back to those afternoons at play. That's what these guys do all day, play games. For a moment, I regret the path I took, of becoming...
...support himself only by racing against horses as a sort of sideshow at Negro League baseball games. To TIME, he was variously the "coffee-colored" Owens, "the world's fastest blackamoor" or "the dusky speedster." But to Jackie Robinson and millions of other black Americans, he was inspiration and paladin, a sign of things to come...
Perry and Horn were convicted of first-degree murder. But family members have also sued Hit Man's publisher, Paladin Press, claiming the company is liable for the murders because it provided the blueprint. Though the First Amendment traditionally protects even the most objectionable writing, a federal court of appeals in Richmond, Va., earlier this month allowed the suit to go forward. In a groundbreaking ruling, the court said the Constitution does not protect books that aid and abet in the commission of a crime...
Renegade publisher Paladin Press was founded in 1970 by Peder Lund, a former Green Beret captain, and Robert Brown, who later left to start Soldier of Fortune magazine. The Boulder, Colo., publisher's "Action Library" runs heavily to books on armed combat and bombmaking. Among its classic titles: Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival, a book whose discussion of ammonium nitrate Timothy McVeigh allegedly used to assemble the Oklahoma City bomb. Paladin also sells instructional videos like Winning a Street Knife Fight: Realistic Offensive Techniques and the fast-selling Advanced Ultimate Sniper. Lund makes no apologies for the information...
...Paladin says Hit Man is being maligned unfairly, because it was written at least partly with tongue in cheek. "I have trouble taking the book seriously," says Thomas Kelley, lawyer for the publishing house. He argues that the book contains many "clearly absurd things," like its advice that hit men be careful not to remove their gloves--and leave fingerprints--if they help themselves to snacks in the victim's refrigerator. And Kelley says the book cover's boast that Feral is a hit man and a "lethal weapon aimed at the enemy of the one who pays him" misstates...