Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introduction to George Bernard Shaw was in 10th grade, when we read Pygmalion in English class. After studying the play, we were treated to a student matinee performance at the roundabout Theatre in New York city. When Higgins exploded with "Liza, you impudent slut!" a good friend of mine with overlarge eyeballs and a frightening smile cackled madly with a demonic guffaw...
...heavily if you undertook to sponsor me, A move was made at Edinburgh University to confer on me the degree of Doctor of Laws (for which I have no qualification) but I discouraged it so uncompromisingly that it was dropped and is not likely to be renewed. Faithfully, G. Bernard shaw...
...haste: President Clinton is due to arrive Friday to declare Haiti safe enough for U.S. troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
...Security Council, meanwhile, said it might send troops to Burundi if the situation deteriorates and threatened extremists on both sides with a war crimes tribunal for committing atrocities. "I don't think the international community can afford anothersituation like there was in Rwanda," said French Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee. "It would be unthinkable...
DIED. MORRIS BERNARD ZALE, 93, retailer; in Dallas. Born into poverty in Russia, Zale grew prosperous mass-marketing jewelry in America through his string of 1,200 Zale's stores, where credit lines and other come-ons sold luxury to the less affluent...