Word: true
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...forced him to resign the post. But Danehy's brother John is the Middlesex County Commissioner and some people believe Vellucci might wind up with a county position. Vellucci, however, says he does not want to work anymore, and will devote himself entirely to public service. If Vellucci is true to his word, all that is left is an even deeper puzzle surrounding his decision to vote for a man with such a conservative record...
...prostitute in order to get a work permit she needs to feed her family. A man tries to participate in an illegal strike. Another watches his father die because he couldn't call an ambulance--there are few telephones in the black townships. They are stories that ring true, stories that have been told often enough by black South Africans. But they are still powerful, dramatic episodes; the audience is forced to come to terms once again with what systematically imposed injustice feels like. So it is not surprising that it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between...
Vellucci, however, will remain true to himself. He says he does not plan to change his support of the liberals' positions in favor of rent control and opposing condominium conversion and vacancy decontrol, a procedure that would allow landlords to raise rents when an apartment is vacated...
SEAMY SEX IS OUT, TRUE LOVE IS IN, declares the February cover of the District of Columbia's regional monthly, the Washingtonian. One of the authorities for this, er, turn of affairs in the nation's capital is the issue's cover girl, Elizabeth Ray, once famous as former Congressman Wayne Hays' nubile secretary who couldn't type. Says she in the accompanying story: "I see a lot of changes since I worked in Washington. Now the men I go out with care about the little things-flowers, smiles, just being nice...
...what the great American sport is, and he will probably give one of three answers: football, baseball or basketball. In each case he would be wrong. The true national sport is the law, and the contest Americans love best is the one in the courtroom, where lives are at stake and vast sums can be won or lost on a lawyer's forward motion...