Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McKeon, for his part, replied, also under oath, that Wagner's charge was tantamount to a lie, or at the very least was gross misinformation. He "absolutely, categorically and without any reservation" denied Wagner's accusation. Obviously, someone was open for a perjury rap...
...Bear off to city jail, and another two or three deputies to wring out his fingerprints. The prints were hardly necessary. He was nabbed last March for speeding and for packing a concealed pistol, for which he was fined $600 and given a suspended jail sentence. This time the rap is drunken driving, and if convicted at his trial on Jan. 29, he faces a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail...
...appellate court in Philadelphia last week, other judges had their say about obscenity as they upheld a five-year federal rap and $42,000 fine against Ralph Ginsburg, publisher of the leering (now defunct) quarterly Eros, whom a lower court had convicted on 28 counts of mailing obscenity. Eros, ruled the appellate court, was "an operation on the part of experts in the shoddy business of pandering to, and exploiting for money, one of the great weaknesses of human beings...
...prosecution next thought of second-degree murder, but that requires proof of intent to kill an individual. Seeing no other choice, the prosecution finally allowed Weissman to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter on the theory that he would still get a rap of up to 15 years. But the D.A. guessed wrong. Accepting Weissman's plea, State Supreme Court Justice Frederick Backer mulled over a psychiatric report and gave Mike Schaffer's killer 3½ to seven years...
...performing such practically profitable jobs as laying out real estate subdivisions. Dozens of other whirring and flashing machines demonstrated how they simulate Gemini space flights, balance million-dollar corporate ledgers in a split second, or tap out a frighteningly human message-"Oh, that tickles"-in response to a rap on the keyboard. Such was the scene at the semiannual Joint Computer Conference, where many of the 5,000 producers, programmers and users in attendance boasted that their machines now can do any job that can be defined...