Word: armstrong
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...same old thing was traditional New Orleans jazz, and Sheik was one of maybe a dozen men who had been playing it since the century was young. While many famous players like King Joe Oliver and Louis Armstrong headed north in the 1920s, scores of other local musicians remained in the city, playing at dances, picnics, parades and funerals. Sheltered from the commercial pressures of big-time show business, their music remained what it was at the beginning, a pure and vital folk art that had evolved from 1,000 years of African and European culture and two centuries...
Finished with everyone his size, he is ready to try Bruce Jenner again, to act in movies, perhaps portray Henry Armstrong, the legendary champion of three weight divisions (whose record Alexis Arguello could not break last week against Aaron Pryor). "Boxers in the past have been known to be ugly," Ali told Leonard. "But we're pretty. You and I can't take credit, though. It started with Sugar Ray Robinson. He was a pretty man before us. Pretty...
...favorable Senate vote had been forged mainly by Utah's conservative Republican Orrin Hatch, Majority Leader Howard Baker and South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond. But an unexpected last-minute hitch developed when Colorado Republican William Armstrong proposed a requirement that the legal ceiling on the national debt could be lifted only by a three-fifths majority in each chamber of Congress. The requirement was tacked on to the amendment, thanks to the mischievous support of many Democrats. They viewed the Armstrong addition as yet another clearly frivolous requirement that should not be embedded in the Constitution. But they found...
...will Congress then deliver on its pledge to help trim the budget deficit? "Beats me," shrugs Colorado Republican William Armstrong, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. "It's painful work. It's kind of like walking over coals barefoot." Adds Texas Democrat Kent Hance of the House Ways and Means Committee: "No way. Coming in on target is just not going to happen...
Pepper demanded that Chairman Greenspan rebuke Armstrong: "If one member can make an assault on another, we become a brawling group." Greenspan mildly reiterated his hope that "we can keep the rhetoric down to an absolute minimum." Wisecracked Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas: "We carry on like this all the time on the floor of the House and the Senate...