Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warsaw government barred three dissident reporters from attending, it was a remarkably freewheeling session. One Polish reporter, Konstanty Jazowski, editor of a Baptist newspaper, asked Carter if he could help stop Polish Catholic discrimination against Baptists. The President ducked the question. He did so again when ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson provocatively recalled how Carter had ridiculed Gerald Ford for wrongly claiming during a campaign debate that Poland was not dominated by Moscow. Asked Donaldson: "Do you see a day when Poland may actually be free?" Visibly upset, Carter lamely replied that the Poles had "a desire and a commitment...
...teenager grinning into the camera with a snow shovel in his hand. The cutline reads, "Twelve year old (Name withheld) shows no sign of birth defects as he shovels snow outside his parents home in Mattapan." Attaboy, kid. Second place to the New York Post for its "Sam Sleeps" cover, complete with a photograph of David Berkowitz catching a few z's in the Tombs. Honorable mentions toonumerous to name... --Joseph W. Dalton and Gay W. Seidman
David Berkowitz, a nice Jewish boy, the son of Sam, got his kicks by killing young people out on dates with his Bulldog revolver. Except for the last killing, all the murders occurred in Queens and Brooklyn, and had whole neighborhoods terrified, whole groups of young women positive they were next, whole squads of vigilantes ready to kill anyone fitting the scanty description of the killer. Berkowitz held a gun to the city...
Instead of jail terms or fines. Circuit Court Judge Sam Harrod III, 37. often used to sentence young offenders to haircuts, loss of their drivers' licenses or a day of picking up cans and bottles along the highways. Says the judge, an eleven-year veteran of the bench in rural Woodford County. Ill., "The courts have become the parents of last resort. I was trying to get young people to change their ways before they got sent to prison." But the American Civil Liberties Union complained to the Illinois Courts Commission that his sentences were violating the defendants...
...Before the last number of Pickwick had appeared in its green paper covers, its plump and amiable little hero with his gaiters and benevolently glittering spectacles, together with Sam Weller and his other friends, had become more than national figures-they had become a mania. Nothing like it had ever happened before. There were Pickwick chintzes, Pickwick cigars, Pickwick hats, Pickwick canes with tassels, Pickwick coats; and there were Weller corduroys and Boz cabs. There were innumerable plagiarisms, parodies, and sequels-a Pickwick Abroad, by G.W.M. Reynolds; a Posthumous Papers of the Cadger Club; a Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian...