Word: slewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result is an embarrassing overdose of social criticism, a whole slew of caricatures, and a flimsy stab or two at continuity--like the dwarf, who made this trip to help us distinguish between the good guys and the bad. (Those who say' "That dwarf has real feelings, the same as any regularized person," are the good guys. Those who say, "That dwarf is nothing but an old dwarf," are the bad guys...
...clock, just as his party for Congress was breaking up, the President rose, showered, shaved and read to his nurse some passages from John Bailey's Book of Family Prayer. Press Secretary Moyers arrived at 5:20 for last-minute instructions, and Lyndon had a slew of them, including a request to cable General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. commander in South Viet Nam, right after the operation, "so our men in Viet Nam will know of my progress...
...Racketeer? The first scandal broke about a year ago when Postmaster General Azellus Denis resigned from the Cabinet after a storm in Parliament over his hiring a slew of defeated Liberal candidates as post office "consultants." That was tame com0pared with what followed. Five months ago, a young Montreal lawyer went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that the executive assistant to the Minister of Immigration, two aides to Justice Minister Guy Favreau, and Pearson's own parliamentary secretary had approached him in an extradition case. The man under extradition proceedings was a Montreal racketeer wanted...
...Thus a man could still be hanged if he stole from as well as killed his victim, or if he killed a policeman or a prison official, or more than one person, but not for other forms of murder. This resulted in ab surd situations where a killer who slew little children got away with imprisonment; yet if he took as little as a shilling from his victims, he was hanged...
Paul Earle Carlson, 36, caught a slew of bullets through head and back as he tried to escape the slashing gunfire...