Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...widening corruption investigation that has tarnished the once squeaky-clean image of Los Angeles law-enforcement agencies. Dozens of narcotics agents from both the sheriff's office and the city police department are suspects. The probe began two years ago, after a deputy's wife tipped off Sheriff Sherman Block to the thefts. Block disbanded four of his narcotics teams and suspended 26 deputies, including some of his most decorated veterans...
What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state's manuscript when he left the statehouse...
...authors' enthusiasm for the "high," their curiosity about the "low" and their richly inflected sense of the complex traffic between the two. Gopnik and Varnedoe write better than their critics. The next-to-last essay ("Contemporary Reflections," by Gopnik, covering a wide swath from David Salle and Cindy Sherman to the short- lived graffiti movement) is, on its own, the best summary yet written of American...
...Olympic games are the most important symbol of Atlanta's evolution from provincial mill-town to modern metropolis since (dare I say it?) William Tecumseh Sherman...
...there is a worse place than hell, I am in it," he said at one low point) and his caustic ones. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," he complained of his dithering military chief, "I would like to borrow it for a time." William Tecumseh Sherman, preparing to march on Atlanta, exhorted, "War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want...