Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a an Adams House remembrance. We wanted to think about something that Ben would have liked, and everybody knows Ben liked a good time," said Adams Master Robert J. Kiely...
Farrakhan is a demagogue, though not much of one. Compared with North Carolina's Senator Bob Reynolds, who in 1939 likened the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia to the American pioneer spirit, Farrakhan is rational. Compared with the old antiblack, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish demagogues of the South, like "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman of South Carolina, who boasted to the Senate, "We shot the Negroes" and "we are not ashamed of it," Farrakhan is harmless, at least for the present. He uses the basic demagogue's tools of swinging illogically from one emotional touchstone to another, of performing little body shivers that...
Wrestling Coach John H. Lee has postponed his first practice session one week as a result of the delays. Men's fencing Coach Ben Zivcovik said the renovations will not be delaying his team's practice season, and swimming teams have been using the Blodgett Pool...
...waits for the sound of Big Ben, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill finds his mind straying "back across the scarring years." A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." Wounded Ambulance Driver Ernest Hemingway, recalling a successful offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office...
...funeral of Ben Wilson, a promising young basketball player who was gunned down for no apparent reason in Chicago last year, Jesse Jackson took up the issue of black-on-black violence. "All of the murders that we didn't react to set the stage for this one," said Jackson in his eulogy. "We are losing more lives in the streets of America than we lost in the jungles of Viet Nam. We must be as serious about ending the war at home as the war abroad." Yes, black-on-black violence is a black problem. But above...