Word: weasels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Kramer tried to weasel his way out of the hole. If he could not prove conspiracy on dozens of securities issues, Kramer hoped Judge Medina would decide against the bankers if the U.S. could show that the "defendants . . . have engaged in price-fixing for a single, particular security issue...
...establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...
...from each tribe, dressed in necklaces, dirty shirts and bright loincloths knotted in front, met on the broiling plain. The aggrieved Weasels demanded 4,000 goats for Aguilar's death, plus war reparations. The Blackbirds balked at so costly a fine. Both factions then agreed to stage a man-to-man combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration...
...Disappearance indicates that if Author Wylie has not entirely forgiven his old whipping girl, "Mom," he has at least come around to the chivalrous belief that the weasel in her life is "Pop." It also indicates that Crusader Wylie takes his new thesis pretty seriously: men & women are already badly divided, and it may be later than the world thinks...
...Hill. But they are politicians. They are sometimes inclined to subvert controversial legislation by letting the "necessity" of pleasing their various constituencies interfere. They are sometimes inclined to let their party affiliation overly affect their thinking and their voting. Once in awhile, they weasel when the legislative waters get rough, as they did when they left determination of certain classifications up to local boards under the last...