Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling lousy," grumbled Coach Hector ("Toe") Blake, as his Montreal Canadiens were preparing for a Stanley Cup playoff game against the Detroit Red Wings. "I get these chest pains right here," he said, stabbing his chest with a finger. "But I've been to a doctor, and he says it's not physical. So I guess it must be mental...
...revelation trembled just past the threshold of her understanding, a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meanings, of an intent to communicate." She pursues the revelation, and finds herself involved with a mysterious organization named Tristero. She pursues the secret of Tristero, and finds herself involved with such improbable characters as Stanley Koteks, Bloody Chiclitz and Genghis Cohen. At one point she experiences carnal congress in a closet; at another she watches an acid head freaking freely; at still another she gravely. observes a "nosepicking contest"-a term, come to think of it, that pretty well describes all these books...
...have all reasonable authority to question any citizen. Investigation alone, they say, cannot solve many crimes, such as burglary, murder and mugging, in which the culprits leave no physical traces. "I defy anyone to find any meaningful evidence at the scene of a purse snatching," says Cincinnati Police Chief Stanley...
...Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve hours. Cassidy, then 25 and "regressed," received no warning and confessed during 20 hours' grilling. Because both convictions were final before Escobedo, they pose the retroactivity riddle. ¶ Ernesto Miranda, 23, an "emotionally ill" truck driver, received 25-and 30-year sentences in 1963 for robbing a woman and kidnaping...
...rural squire with a conservatism that soon became simply amniotic. He refused to drive a car, rarely answered the phone, harrumphed indignantly that the Times of London had gone bolshie, appeared in public with an ear trumpet two feet long, and took savage pleasure in annoying Americans-"Erie Stanley Gardner," he announced sweetly to one visitor, "is the finest living American author...