Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Putnam as a leader of small forces in hot combat, but the semiliterate general knows and cares little about problems like planning and supply. Putnam is presently second in command in New York. To help him with administration Washington has assigned him an aide from his own staff, Major Aaron Burr, 20, a sparrow-sized scholar from Princeton, New Jersey, who fought with distinction in the battle for Quebec...
...Hank and Tommie Aaron...
...films with his scores for a pair of Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland's inspiration for several famous ballet scores, including Appalachian Spring...
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...
...Hank Aaron did it in baseball with home run No. 715; Jim Brown did it in football with seven 1,000-yard seasons; Mark Spitz did it in a swimming pool with his seventh Olympic gold medal. Any day now, Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 44, will do it in horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden...