Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is another side to this argument, also, I should like to hear it. I said that in my last letter, too; if this one also goes unanswered, I shall know what to conclude. Roger G. Tobin...
...nasal chorus that backs lead singer Roger Daltrey on most of Who Are You hasn't changed very much since the days when the band dressed up in Union Jacks. It's striking how little else has changed. The Who's sound has remained consistent longer than most groups have remained together...
...struggled to hold the nation together, President Lincoln introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found that Lincoln had sought to suspend habeas corpus when it was "perfectly clear under the Constitution that he had no such power...
...Estaing made that scheme possible by splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were given only two months to find a suitable anchor, so they took a long shot: Roger Gicquel, a relatively obscure former airline steward, failed actor and radio-station executive who had never been in front of a TV camera...
People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin...