Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relentless prosecutor, he convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft, convicted Alameda's mayor for bribery and theft of public funds. None of his convictions was ever reversed on appeal, but none of them gave him particular pleasure. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...
Americans put up with these strictures because Saudi Arabia is, after all, a holy land, and because Aramco values its royalties and the U.S. its big air base. Sometimes Americans lose their tempers; whether they are right or wrong in any particular ruckus, they are usually shipped home. One American was shot and wounded by a Saudi with the victim's own gun. The American was reprimanded for having a weapon, and deported; the shooter was admonished and set free...
...desirable end, it is rare that one means of achieving it "can be singled out as the only 'Christian' way, and therefore most deserving of the support of the church"-whereas the literature of the council "has sometimes been definitely slanted in the direction of a particular political or economic program." In lobbying, if ever, the council "should not take a partisan position on matters on which the churches are not substantially united...
...freshman, at first seeing the Colgate handbook, discovers that Konosioni taps its members on the basis of a point total. In the back of the handbook is a listing of the points awarded each particular activity. It is interesting to note that captains of the major sports share the top point award (10) with editors-in-chief of the weekly paper and the yearbook, plus the manager of football. Managers of the other major sports are on the next point rung down along with the editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, The Banter...
...Center's workers took the stories relatively calm, with Bauer, wondering about some of the Post's exclusive factual evidence. "They quoted expenditures on a particular project as $45,000. I don't know how they arrived at the figure. Here we certainly don't know exactly how much it cost but if we could name a figure, it would be closer...