Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 33 prisoners would be affected. While individual challenges may prevent the death row floodgates from opening all at once this year, the consolidation of capital punishment appears nearly complete. The Justices writing last week seemed to know that. Summoning particular eloquence, Dissenter Brennan said, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined." Speaking directly...
...that was why Cappi hadn't called me. She was still beautiful, still svelte, still smelled like rasberry tootsie pops and Sprite, still loved me, and didn't want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw off her Iowa...
...They can't pretend that it is primarily a charitable organization. It is basically a social organization that happens to give its money to charity," she says. She describes the dance as "simply donating money and hanging our with a lot of other rich people...
...weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News," he told the crowd. "It's not CBS News anymore...
...Warned P.R.I. President Jorge de la Vega: "Those who do not want to respect the will of the immense majority of party members should renounce our party and seek affiliation with other political organizations." In response, the Mexico City daily Jornada editorialized last week: "The leaders of the party pretend that they have ended a debate that in reality is just beginning...