Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These people don't want to enforce the death penalty," Tucker said, referring to the defeated justices. "They're obstructing the public will...
According to William Tucker, author of Vigilante: The Backlash against Crime in America, this concern for truth recently "has been superseded by the concern for the procedural aspect of criminal...
...Tucker referred to a California federal judge who was voted out of office earlier this week, partly because she consistently voted to overturn death sentences...
...century ago, however, the tuxedo almost got kicked out of Gilpatric's set. Griswold Lorillard -- scion, as social columnists would put it, of the tobacco Lorillards -- showed up in the rarefied regions of the country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., wearing a red waistcoat with his best bib and tucker. The incendiary vest was bad enough, but what really stirred up the swells was the inescapable fact that Griswold's tails did not have any. The tailcoat was cut even and short, like a suit jacket. Scion or not, Griswold almost got the bounce, until cooler heads and appraising eyes...
...retired military officers, for example -- might sometimes be brought in as grade school principals. Some critics also accused him of taking too rosy a ! view of the state of primary schooling and failing to address such questions as learning difficulties and the special problems of poor children. Complained Marc Tucker, executive director of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy: "He fails to reconcile how high schools could be in so much trouble if elementary schools are in pretty good shape...