Word: anson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result was Project Nation-Building, perhaps better called nation-mending, or simply domestic action. By any name, it is a very tentative experiment, essentially a pilot project, but one that so far has gone remarkably well. Since the project's first action teams entered Hoke and Anson counties this January, Special Forces men and various units of the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg have been quietly engaged there, and more recently in South Carolina and Montana. Their mission may well lead to a new role for the Berets in the Army...
...Bragg, Hoke County has only two doctors (both in private practice) for 16,436 people-compared with a national ratio of 1 to 650-one dentist and a tuberculosis rate four times higher than the state average. More than half its residents are either black or Lumbee Indian. Anson County, some 60 miles to the west, is only slightly better off medically...
...first morning of the Washington protest, TIME Correspondent, Robert Anson, was covering a group of demonstrators near the Lincoln Memorial, and was swept up in the ensuing "bust" (the charges against him were later dropped). Along with others, he was taken to the makeshift jail that was soon cheerfully labeled "Woodstockade." His report...
...material gathered by Anson and Kane went to Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story. It was edited by John Elson and researched by Alexandra Mezey, a sportswoman who has postponed her vacation in order to see the fight. Of the team, only Kennedy claimed to be the classic fight fan: "I'm a screamer and a yeller, a foot stomper, a seat pounder. I'll admit to a certain blood lust, a sense of impending disaster. I wait for the big punch that will...
Kennedy, who boxed in college, ventured a prediction on the outcome: "Ali will win in the 13th round." Kennedy's colleagues also offered their individual prophecies. Elson: "Ali will win by decision"; Kane: "Ali, by a decision"; Anson: "Frazier will score a knockout in the 8th round"; Mezey: "Frazier will win-it's my female intuition...