Word: bard
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...second most active member is Harold G. Evans, 42, a Postal Service clerk, who was elected deputy foreman by fellow members. Pregelj and Evans have asked about half of the questions posed by the jury. Others who have been active interlocutors include Lila Bard, 65, a retired Army officer; Enas Broadway, 62, an employee in the National Library of Medicine; George W. Stockton Sr., 55, a Defense Department supply technician; and Naomi R. Williams, 58, a retired teacher and elevator operator...
DISCUSSING the period of the thirties in American writing, Murray Kempton once remarked that no other age produced so many counterfeit Walt Whitmans. He meant that everyone who wanted his thoughts about society to be believed felt compelled to echo the great grey bard: "I am the man, I suffered, I was there...
Aneurin was a 7th century Welsh warrior-bard, and Aneurin Bevan aptly bore his name. Roaring into the House of Commons in 1929, the original Angry Young Man, he became-second only to his archfoe, Winston Churchill -the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain. One of seven surviving sons of a Monmouthshire miner who died of lung disease, "Nye" Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument...
What's in a name? To the Bard, a rose by any other name smelled as sweet. Unfortunately, too many have taken that thought to heart in creating collegiate sports nicknames...
...Bard, a consultant to brokerages on internal-security problems, tells how the thievery developed: "The Street used to operate on a handshake. But all of a sudden, brokers had to enlarge their staffs to meet increased trading volume. The type of employees changed. Some of the new ones did not have a moral obligation to the firm. The Mob moved in at the end of 1966. As volume picked up still further, clerks began to make good money. Many took to gambling and got in over their heads, borrowing from Shylocks to pay their debts. Eventually they were forced...