Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home during their missions and phone calls home are usually limited to Christmas. The rule varies at each mission, however, and Griffin says he did not call home at all during his two years away. He explains that the rule makes sense because a phone call make a person homesick, which can take energy away from his work...
...only other person who got off on Broadway was a woman wearing white nurse's shoes. She ran up the stairs, and, having nothing to do at the time, I followed. As we approached the street, calls of "Jane, we thought you'd miss the shuttle," drifted down the hollow subway tunnel." Ten pairs of nurses' shoes were waiting on the street, waiting for the shuttle to University Hospital, waiting for Jane...
...made it largely on the strength of his charisma. As the first mayor of Boston whose parents were born in Ireland, and the first Roman Catholic in the U.S. House of Representatives, Fitzgerald was noted for having developed "the Irish switch"--the art of shaking hands with one person while talking to another...
Police use traffic violations to apprehend suspected drug runners and bypass the constitutional protection from unreasonable searches and seizures. Because any person who even remotely resembles the stereotypical drug runner can be stopped almost on a whim, this technique can be subject to the most flagrant abuses...
...person who is stopped by the police does not have to submit to questions and searches, but the choice may not be there. It is being said that those who do undergo interrogations and searches "voluntarily" may be more than persuasively coerced...