Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the team Perot assembled last spring have dissociated themselves from the candidate. Dallas lawyer Thomas W. Luce III, Perot's confidant and loyal spear carrier for 20 years -- the man Perot reportedly blamed for his earlier troubles -- has returned to corporate law. Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's former campaign manager, is back in Washington working as a political consultant. Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's chief of staff who was hired with Rollins in June to run the campaign, has gone back to his corporate life at Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tennessee. James Squires, former editor of the Chicago...
...immoral and wrong, runs the standard, timeworn answer. But this stricture has never cut as much ice with potential liars as moralists would wish. The vast majority of criminal defendants assert their innocence, no matter what the evidence against them. Watergate was a baroque pageant of major players and spear carriers trying to lie themselves out of jeopardy...
...Supreme Court has just downgraded cross burnings to the level of bonfires and ruled that it's no crime to throw around verbal grenades like "nigger" and "kike." Where are the defenders of decorum and social stability when prime-time demagogues like Howard Stern deride African Americans as "spear chuckers...
...sight of a gang of Zulus brandishing traditional weapons is enough to instill terror in the black townships around Johannesburg, where many residents belong to other tribal groups. Local newspapers recently published a photo that shows why. The frame captured a black man in Soweto clasping a spear and plunging it into the back of another black man, who was desperately trying to flee...
...Zulu leaders have long maintained that carrying spears is a cultural right. Last week, in a bid to halt political violence, President F.W. de Klerk secured an arms-control agreement with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. Henceforth, the spear will be added to the government's list of dangerous instruments that are banned in areas where unrest occurs...