Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Number two player Julia Moore, who was on leave last season, led the team over Bowdoin by defeating her opponent, 3-1. The players in the third, fourth and fifth positions, Sally Blair, Emmi Levin, and Suzana deSola, all won without giving up a single game to their Bowdoin counterparts...
...odds cannot be reduced entirely; the militant Puerto Ricans who in 1950 tried to gun their way through the front door of Blair House, where Harry Truman was staying, came alarmingly close to success. Lyndon Johnson told and retold the story that during his own presidency a dozen or so men had scaled the 8-ft. White House fence and made their way up to the mansion before being apprehended...
...audience rushed to shake his hand and get his autograph. Rocky, in fact, was engulfed by more well-wishers than even Wallace. Noting how much Rocky and Wallace had in common, Maryland Lieutenant Governor Blair Lee declared, "The political situation is getting spooky around here." Asked if Wallace had written the speech for Rocky, an aide to the Alabama Governor replied, "We lost a speech the other day. Now I know who found...
...jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance." Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines...
...Secretary James Callaghan visits Uganda in the meantime. Trembling, Amin shouted to his defense council, "Alert the army! Alert the air force! Call Libya [an ally whose leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is a fellow Moslem and fellow eccentric] and tell her to start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain had sent two warships "full of combat troops" to the Kenyan port of Mombasa...