Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--A state attorney initially said prosecutors in the William Kennedy Smith rape case couldn't use allegations of previously unreported assaults, according to pretrial testimony made public yesterday...
...cars parked on a siding. While none of the passenger cars turned over, 25 ft. of the Silver Star's stainless-steel skin was peeled back, ripping out seats and killing five men and two women. "Glass and metal were flying in," said Dave Elmers, a passenger from West Palm Beach, Fla. "It just opened up that train like a sardine can." Said Steven Clark, a passenger from Philadelphia who was thrown from the train by the collision: "It was devastating...
...back door by reporting on a tabloid's reporting on a story." The value of Brokaw, a respected pro who wins journalism awards and dines at the White House, in such a cleanup operation is high. In April, Brokaw sanitized the use of the name of the alleged Palm Beach rape victim in the William Smith case under the guise of reporting on the ethics of a supermarket scandal sheet, which had used the name first. This purified the issue sufficiently for the New York Times, which ran a lurid profile of the woman the next day, violating most...
...loses the candidacy of one of the nation's most successful Governors to moral terrorism, the press may yet come to see that there is more to journalism than moving product, no matter how heated the competition. But so far, with only slightly fewer correspondents assigned to the alleged Palm Beach rape case than to the Moscow summit, there seems no end to busybodying in sight...
...probably be a hearing to decide whether the women's testimony is admissible. The defense lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the latest charges. They also argued for the trial to be moved to a different location, on the ground that an impartial jury cannot be found in Palm Beach County...