Word: toothbrushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They should say farewell to their family and bring their toothbrush, and I mean it, because they are going to jail." The author of that hardball warning is -- or was until recently -- a churchgoing Roman Catholic. Like several other public figures of the faith, notably New York's Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo, federal District Judge Patrick F. Kelly, 62, believes that his personal views on abortion, which he refuses to disclose, should not affect his responsibility to enforce the law of the land. Meaning, on this issue, Roe v. Wade. The judge's determination to stop pro-life activists from...
...worth of frills like passengers and their luggage brings the car up to its registered gross weight of about three tons. That has provoked much German ridicule for the obese auto; an Auto Motor und Sport reader observed that the new car would be useful only for carrying four toothbrush-wielding dwarfs to a nudist colony. The embarrassed automaker solved the problem with paper- shuffling panache, persuading the government to add 308 lbs. to the car's official weight...
...kids, Planned Parenthood of New York founded Project Street Beat, a neighborhood organization that trolls the Bronx, visiting the places where teenage prostitutes gather. It offers free medical treatment and counseling, hands out sandwiches, clean clothes, "bleach kits" for sterilizing needles, and "dignity packs": Ziploc toilet kits containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, a comb, soap, a towelette, condoms, tampons and sanitary napkins. Sometimes the workers drive the kids to a local McDonald's for a snack and a chance to talk...