Word: bard
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...sending it back ... I won’t be intimidated,” said Bard Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky...
...then there was the riff on loyalty from an old Elbert Hubbard essay, which Rowley received from a number of retired agents. A paraphrased version of Hub-bard's words used to hang on the walls of FBI headquarters while J. Edgar Hoover was director. It read, in part: "If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him; speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember--an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness ... If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault, why--resign your position and when...
...batted .406--an average no one has come near since. Need some drama? On the season's last day, with his average right at .400 (actually .39955), his manager suggested he sit out the doubleheader. Williams declined, went 6 for 8 and achieved the now sacred .406. Yet no bard sang his praises; instead, the airwaves were filled with Joltin' Joe DiMaggio--for the Yankee Clipper, who had hit in 56 consecutive games (another feat not approached in six decades). Though Williams had the stronger season, baseball writers named DiMaggio the league...
...OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
...almost never wrote her first. The daughter of a factory manager from Oak Park, Ill.--the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway, the bard of brawn--the tiny, winsome Shields never imagined she could become a writer at all. "I thought it was like wanting to be a movie star!" she recalls. "I never thought writers could be people like me." Instead, she married Don Shields, an engineer, and moved to Canada, where she had five children in 10 years...