Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...citizens, who have maintained a hangdog pride in being off the beaten path, Fresno has become one of the fastest-growing major cities in America. In Fresno people had always felt that they were in California but not of it -- a little bit of Iowa under the palm trees. Now their sleepy farm town is growing nearly as fast as crops planted in the dull, rich land of the surrounding San Joaquin Valley...
Before their political campaigns, David Duke had cosmetic surgery and Doug Wilder shaved off his mustache (no one with a mustache has won the White House in more than a half-century). Next: the new Ted Kennedy, who is said to have lost 35 lbs. preparing for his Palm Beach testimony...
...little luck and the deference accorded a dynasty, the Kennedy family has generally finessed its transgressions. The public has never learned the full story of what happened when Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick, when David Kennedy died of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach hotel, or when Joe Kennedy's jeep overturned on Nantucket and crippled a young girl for life. Last week, as the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith began in West Palm Beach with interviews of prospective jurors, the Kennedy family could count on two of its traditional assets...
What the Kennedy family may lack this time is the deference that its name has customarily evoked. It is not just that the Palm Beach gentry always considered the Kennedys arrivistes, even after one of them was elected President of the U.S. And it is not just that the family of the alleged victim -- unlike the Kopechnes, who did not criticize the Kennedys until the 20th anniversary of the drowning -- knows its way around the legal system and has the money to pay for it. The difference is that the prosecutor, Moira Lasch, has a near 100% conviction rate...
...last May, the Kennedys have hired private analysts as far afield as Texas and Michigan to examine hair, blood and particle samples. Duke University's Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs conducted two public opinion polls for Smith to determine if he could get a fair trial in Palm Beach. Three detectives, including Steve Roadruck, nicknamed "Dr. Dirt" for his ability to unearth damaging details, have worked for nearly three months to help discredit both the accuser and her story. The strategy, as laid out in court documents, is to prove that Smith's accuser has a "longstanding psychological...