Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been 300 years since Pope Benedict XIV7 forbade the practice of assuring by surgery a steady supply of soprano voices...
...FATHER) DAVID NICHOLSON, O.S.B. Mount Angel Abbey St. Benedict...
...Absolute baloney!" roared rambunctious Patrick Benedict McGinnis last week to a report that he was leaving the presidency of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Less than five hours later, McGinnis ate his baloney, said that he would quit his $75,000-a-year job because a "splinter group" of New Haven directors did not like the way he was running the railroad...
...Revolution came on, the house became a center for it briefly. In one of its rooms the Committee on Safety planned the army the Congress had authorized, while in another the high command--at least until Washington arrived--settled its immediate strategy. Captain Benedict Arnold appeared with a Connecticut company to broach a plan for taking Ticonderoga. General Artemas Ward made the house his headquarters, planning the defense of Bunker Hill during his stay, and General Warren, who conducted it, slept there on the eve of battle...
...daily grind. Now all is changed. For months, in the newspapers and at hearings in New York City, Boston and Stamford. Conn., the commuters have complained bitterly about sloppy service, endless delays, dangerous cutbacks in maintenance. All of the invective has been directed at one man, Patrick Benedict McGinnis, 51, the colorful, terrible-tempered president of the New Haven. Stockholders' Darling. Although a good many of the complaints proved on investigation to be justified (in 1955, for example, the New Haven curtailed maintenance by some $3,000,000), the main trouble seemed to be Pat McGinnis himself...