Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear, and no one will ever know what happened"; and his friend's indistinct last words as officers shoved Biko and Jones into separate cars, something like, "I'll be seeing...
...public saga of Madalyn Murray O'Hair began in June 1963, when the U.S. Supreme Court removed prayer from the public schools. The suit on which the decision was primarily based had been brought by a Philadelphia Unitarian named Ed Schempp. But it soon became apparent that a secondary litigant, whose case had merely been attached to Schempp's, was the one who most desperately wanted the mantle of the era's foremost separator of church and state. Madalyn O'Hair was a heavy woman with a strong voice and jaw who even in repose resembled, as author Lawrence Wright...
...large landlords in Cambridge are making windfall profits from the end of rent control," said Louise Dunlop. One real-estate company has allegedly begun a 20 percent rent increase across the board, and other realtors are following suit...
...nuclear power plant suit that I might wear," he said. "It's not from Star Wars but it's still kind of from the future...
...Bolognas were surprised by the suit--and disgusted by the way it was handled...