Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUNTING for heroin addicts in the stairwell of an unlit, urine-scented housing project, Officers Michael C. O'Hara and Richard L. Whalen pulled out their flashlights and walked upstairs. They checked out the shadows and joked grimly with each other. "How'd you like coming home to this every night?" "Sure smells nice...
...started innocently enough. Our escorts were right out of central casting. Boston cops O'Hara, 27, and Whalen, 26: good-humored, clean-cut, baby-faced Irishmen who had grown up in the neighborhood. Once high school rivals, they had become friends in the Academy and had been partners for 18 months...
This enraged Froto, Crusader Head Coach Jack Whalen, and the rest of the Holy Cross team. Moore conferred with home plate umpire Don January, and then reversed his call...
...BEEN almost 30 years since Beat poet Allen Ginsberg published the poem that first made heads turn in American literary circles. Giinsberg, who finished "Howl" in 1956, was part of an American troupe of writers which included novelists Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs and poets Gregory Corso and Philip Whalen. Known for their experiments with hallucinogens, affection for jazz, dabblings in Buddhism and spontaneous lifestyles, the Beatniks formed one of the major literary movements in the post-modern era. In the midst of the 58-year-old Ginsberg's East Coast tour to promote his new book, Collected Poems...
Access charges could save AT&T $3.3 billion a year in subsidies to local phone companies. But because of other costs, the company had proposed cutting long-distance rates by only $1.75 billion. As expected, AT&T was unhappy with the FCC action. Said Executive Vice President Kenneth Whalen: "We find any delay by the FCC extremely troublesome. It's a disservice to customers because it could prevent the sizable long-distance reductions we had planned...