Word: wade
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...demonstrates his devotion to achieving not just a symbolic victory, but the safety and security he has sought since the beginning. Furthermore, his name is likely to achieve immortality, joining William Marbury, Joseph Lochner, and Oliver Brown in the annals of American legal history. (The plaintiff in Roe v. Wade dodged notoriety by using a pseudonym...
...Senegalese for the game that surprises many foreigners. Don't tell a Senegalese host that you consider Scrabble a pastime for a relaxed evening of socializing; they will deem it an insult to the sport. Last year, Senegal's top Scrabblers were invited for an audience with President Abdoulaye Wade. "It would be hard to imagine a scene like that in Europe", Jeanneret says drily...
...political career and even his life when he was martyred for not assenting to the King's divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn. Mario Cuomo, to the contrary, has surrendered his faith to his political career by supporting a woman's right to have an abortion. Thomas Wade Moore Dallas I have been intrigued with Cuomo since his keynote speech at the '84 convention, when I considered him to have presidential potential. Now I am not so sure. Do we want another President who, like Jimmy Carter, cannot delegate responsibility or who, like Richard Nixon, reacts to criticism by feeling...
...that will live in infamy,'' declared TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, referring to the Supreme Court's reaffirmation last week of Roe vs. Wade. Citing Thomas Jefferson, the Republican presidential aspirant called the high court an ''unelected oligarchy'' and assailed the Justices as ''despots.'' Some 1,200 delegates to the National Right to Life Committee's convention in Denver applauded warmly. Then came New York's Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, a more conventional politician and a virtually certain candidate for the 1988 presidential nomination. Kemp took a broader view, shunning personal attacks on the Justices and appealing for ''not just...
...issues have divided the nation as sharply in the past 13 years as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision affirming women's constitutional right to abortion. Last week it became apparent that states' efforts to regulate abortion are having an equally divisive effect on the high court. In overturning a Pennsylvania law designed to discourage women from seeking abortions, Justice Harry Blackmun and four colleagues ringingly reaffirmed the court's 1973 landmark ruling. But four dissenters, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, sharply questioned the ever widening scope of Roe and subsequent decisions. If states cannot impose some limits...