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infamous and essay
"— a revised version of " Perchance to Dream ," Franzen's infamous 1996 Harper's essay on the novelists ' obligation to social realism — and " My Father's Brain ," nominated for a 2002 National Magazine Award.

infamous and attacking
From being buried alive, to being prosecuted for attacking a feisty pit bull terrier with a collection of coconut meringues, Victor tries to adjust to life after his infamous replacement by a " box " at his place of employment, but to no avail.
That season the NHL still had the infamous " Crease Rule " in effect, which stated that if any player of the attacking team who did not have possession of the puck was in the crease before the puck, then any resulting goal was disallowed.
Flash also tips the infamous giant penny onto some of the attacking Thangarians (" Tails!
Bachir led his troops in the infamous “ Hundred Days War ” in Lebanon in 1978, in which the Lebanese Forces successfully resisted the Syrian shelling and attacking of Eastern Beirut for about three months before an Arab-brokered agreement forced the Syrians to end the siege.
An attacking midfielder, he rose through the ranks of River's youth divisions as the team was undergoing its infamous dry spell ( 18 years, 1957 to 1975, without a championship title ).

infamous and detective
Toward the end of the war, detective Lafayette Baker captured 183 bounty jumpers in a single day by having an infamous broker named Theodore Allen help him use a fake recruitment office ; however, Allen eventually ran off to Canada with $ 50, 000 that was used for the purpose of capturing the bounty jumpers.

infamous and fiction
The Eye of Argon, Jim Theiss ' only work of fiction, is an unusual example: it is famous ( or rather infamous ) for its lack of quality.
* Queer Fear II, Michael Rowe, editor, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55152-122-9 ( horror fiction collection featuring Treleaven's infamous short story ' Bugcrush ')

infamous and Who
* 1980 – On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J. R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase " Who shot J. R .?
Its counterpart has come up with infamous slogans such as " Who Makes Movies?
Miles is also known for being a member of the Doctor Who fan community, having publicly voiced his opinions of other Doctor Who authors and fans in an infamous " final " interview before withdrawing from fandom.
( ISBN 978-1852277826 ) after an infamous line of dialogue the Brigadier had in the 1971 Who serial The Dæmons.
The Who drummer Keith Moon became infamous for playing practical jokes involving cherry bombs during the band's tours during the 1960s onward.
This photograph was from the infamous " Who is Todd " campaign of 2002.

infamous and Roger
Roger was also infamous for the ruthless sackings and the devastation of his actions, often driven only by greed and personal advantage.
As time has put distance between Berkley and the infamous film ( which has since achieved cult status among film fans and placed number 36 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 50 Cult Movies and is also one of top 20 highest grossing films of all time for MGM ), she has performed in strong supporting roles in independent films such as The Taxman, Tail Lights Fade, Roger Dodger ( which her manager advised her not to do ), and Moving Malcolm.
Other friends included Daily Telegraph editor Colin Coote, MI5 head Roger Hollis, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt, Conservative MP Geoffrey Nicholson, infamous slumlord Peter Rachman, and the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
In the ( preassigned ) press conference Schill held minutes after he had heard of his own dismissal, he spoke vaguely of " homosexual relationships ", a " flat in an infamous hustler district " and " certain things happened that let one infer the occurrence of love acts " between Beust and Roger Kusch, who Beust had appointed minister ( in German city-states " senator ") of justice.
He is also infamous for his Usenet response to the death of Roger Zelazny: " Good ".
" However, the band also chose to commission the artwork for Eat Me in St. Louis and its early single releases from the infamous progressive rock sleeve artist Roger Dean, in what Dunnery admitted was a calculated attempt to play on their own " progressive rock " reputation and to " annoy people.

infamous and American
Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.
In an attempt to reverse the decline, from 1848 to the early 1870s Macau engaged in the infamous trade of coolies ( slave labourers ) as a transit port, shipping locals from southern China to Cuba, Peru, and other South American ports to work on plantations or in mines.
* Soapy Smith ( Jefferson R. Smith ), infamous American confidence man and crime boss ( d. 1898 )
In the late 18th century, Hesse-Kassel became infamous for selling mercenaries ( Hessians ) to the British crown to help suppress the American Revolution and to finance the construction of palaces and the landgrave's opulent lifestyle.
Coverage of the first Gulf War and other crises of the early 1990s ( particularly the infamous Battle of Mogadishu ) led officials at the Pentagon to coin the term " the CNN effect " to describe the perceived impact of real time, 24-hour news coverage on the decision-making processes of the American government.
* Brent Musburger, night sports editor of the American who became a prominent television sports personality ; while writing for the paper he penned his infamous column describing Tommie Smith and John Carlos as " black-skinned storm troopers " for their protest of racial injustice in the United States during the 1968 Summer Olympics.
The Champs-Élysées, because of its size and proximity to several Parisian landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, has been the site of several notable military parades, the most infamous being the march of German troops celebrating the Fall of France on 14 June 1940, and the two most famous, the subsequent marches of Free French and American forces after the liberation of the city, respectively, the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944, and the U. S. 28th Infantry Division on 29 August 1944.
Neshoba County is known as the site of one of the most infamous race-related crimes in American history.
The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era.
Much of Butts County and its cities were destroyed by the army of General William T. Sherman in its infamous March to the Sea during the American Civil War.
Marshals arrested the infamous Dalton Gang in 1893, helped suppress the Pullman Strike in 1894, enforced Prohibition during the 1920s, and have protected American athletes at recent Olympic Games.
In perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, General Benedict Arnold attempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe consisting of a commission as a Brigadier General in the British Army and a cash reward of £ 20, 000 ( about $ 1. 3M in 2009 dollars ).
* Larry Barnett, Longtime Umpire 1969-1999 Major League Baseball, Worked infamous Game 3 of 1975 World Series and 1996 Jeffrey Maier American League Championship Series.
Downtown Eastside is infamous for its open drug trade, drug-related deaths ( Vancouver's Skid Row has the highest per capita heroin-related deaths in the entire North American continent ), prostitution and the highest rate of HIV and Hepatitis C infection in North America.
He was president of the infamous American Acclimatization Society which tried to introduce every bird species mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to North America in 1890.
During the World War II, Camp O ' Donnell in Capas became the terminal point of the infamous " Bataan Death March ", involving Filipino and American soldiers who surrendered in Bataan on April 9, 1942.
" Her well-publicised trials and the accusations against her make her the most famous, or infamous, English woman in colonial American history.
Some prized exhibits in the Field Museum include a large collection of dinosaur skeletons in the Evolving Planet exhibit, a comprehensive set of human cultural anthropology exhibits ( with artifacts from ancient Egypt, the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Islands, and Tibet ), a large and diverse taxidermy collection ( with many large animals, including two prized African elephants and the infamous Lions of Tsavo featured in the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness ), the Ancient Americas exhibit devoted to a large collection of Native American artifacts, and Sue ( the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton currently known ).
The band is credited for helping to shape the sound and style of American hardcore punk, the group started out as part of the early California punk rock scene, and gained national prominence after an infamous 1981 performance on Saturday Night Live.
American musician and composer Frank Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention were central to the freak scene in the mid to late 1960s, both in the Los Angeles / San Francisco Bay Area music scene and in New York, where the band had a now infamous residency at the Garrick Theatre.
During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for many thousands of American soldiers and sailors during about 1776 – 83.
" Lt. General Hal Moore later wrote that it was during his time in Vietnam that Schwarzkopf acquired what later became his infamous temper, while arguing via radio for passing American Hueys to land and pick up his wounded men.
The movie provided the first motion picture account of the Sand Creek massacre, one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the American frontier, in which Colorado Territory militia under Colonel John M. Chivington massacred a defenseless village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Colorado Eastern Plains.
Official DoD maps included with the game encompass scenes such as the infamous battle at Omaha Beach ( dod charlie ), streetfighting in the Italian city of Salerno during Operation Avalanche ( dod avalanche ), and a Glider mission where the American 101st Airborne lands in a WACO Glider and has to destroy such objectives as a radio antenna and Flak 88 mm gun anti-aircraft gun ( dod glider ).

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