Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense table, Mel Patrick Lynch, 38, a New York fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 54, a limousine-service operator, sobbed. The jury pronounced both guilty on the charge of extortion. That verdict will almost certainly mean prison for the two Irish Americans-but shorter terms than a kidnaping conviction would have carried. Thus ended one of the strangest criminal trials of this decade...
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said that she was "the only person in Congress shorter than Jimmy Carter. I hope to be close to him and get things done...
...30/11/76) I did not use the expression "male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...
...said she was especially appreciative of the men's moderating their long passes in sympathy for the type of hockey the women play, which uses shorter passes and more running...
...cold autumn days grow shorter, Eastern Europe's largest nation (after the Soviet Union) is headed for its most difficult year since 1970. In the late afternoon, outside one of the new Western-style supermarkets in Warsaw, a line of people 20 yds. long extends out the door and into the chilly darkness. It is mostly women, bundled in heavy coats and woolen scarves, their cheeks turned crimson by the subfreezing temperature. It is the ubiquitous meat queue, the most common symbol of Poland's political and economic malaise...