Word: arthur
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...participants are unusually passionate about this rather obscure, unpopular sport filled with strange, hard-to-pronounce European names. "It is combat, and there's romance to it," says Arthur Phillips, the number-one foil fencer on the Crimson...
...better, but the struggle is not linear. It's dynamic and ever changing. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis struggled for the legitimacy of black athletic talent. Later, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell and others struggled for access. In the late '60s, athletes like Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Arthur Ashe and Kareem ((Abdul-Jabbar)) fought for recognition of the dignity of the black athlete. Now we're in the struggle for power, and that's the most difficult of all. If we can broaden democratic participation in sports, then there is at least the possibility that we can devise credible...
Last year, two masters--Myra A. Mayman of Cabot House and Arthur L. Loeb of Dudley--resigned. But Jewett said he did not think the Moores' resignation was part of a trend...
...down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before him, he will remain on the payroll as a consultant...
...they could be from innocent visions of Tom Sawyer or Horatio Alger. Even discounting a particularly bloody penultimate encounter, Billy Bathgate directly witnesses two murders and helps dispose of the body of a third victim. In each case, the perpetrator is the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz, ne Arthur Flegenheimer, Billy's self-described "mentor" and as romantically dangerous a father figure as any lad could desire. Billy is his real name, Bathgate an alias he has invented, lifted from a street, known for its open-air markets, a few blocks from his birthplace in the Bronx. Billy's education...