Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While in Lewisburg, the elder Hiss made his share of friends, the closest being, surprisingly, the Italian convicts who dubbed him "Alberto" and watched after him. At one point, these friends introduced Hiss to Mafia chieftain Tony Costello, who claimed he had been put away on a bum rap, too. There is the chilling story of two cons, incited by a prison guard, who seriously contemplated killing Hiss until talked out of the idea by one of Alberto's friends. Then, after being released, Hiss faced the frustration of trying to find work with a shattered reputation and a disintegrating...
...book will be "a kind of giant 'rap session' on paper," according to the questionnaire's introduction. Hite insists that her original intention was self-education. Says she: "I thought maybe I was full of misconceptions about male sexuality, so I just distributed the questionnaire with that in mind." But when she began to realize that the male survey would make a book in itself, she added "really important" questions. For example, she wondered: "Are men really aroused after orgasm, or could they not care less?" Kite's way of phrasing is part of the problem...
...claimed a $231,000 tax deduction, part of which was rejected by the IRS. These actions were not exceptional. When Lyndon Johnson left the White House, he carted away mounds of documents, some of which wound up in his memoirs The Vantage Point. "It's a bum rap," said Mondale...
...ratings. But the chief reasons for the news's timidity and sporadic honesty have much more to do with the government, which licenses them, than the ratings. UBS executive Frank Hackett's casual rejoinder to questions about controversial news programming--"The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles"--is dangerously misleading. The heads of the three networks fear the government's ability to impinge on their programming far more than they care about their news programs' audience...
...whole affair at least as interesting as dog bites dog, if not man bites dog. Said Sacramento Bee (and former Los Angeles Times) Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "It's the first indication that we're going to break out of the gentlemen's club and rap each other. I think it's refreshing as hell...