Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...using the financial razzle-dazzle that later was to become such a liability. His campaign committees obtained $228,000 in loans from his bank in the form of overdrafts. In all, Lance spent more than $1 million. He campaigned furiously, but his beguiling pose as an aw-shucks country boy backfired when opponents forced him to disclose that his net worth then was $3.1 million. Although he was Carter's choice, he finished third...
...bemused the congregation, Graham began by explaining, a sentence at a time to permit translation into Hungarian, that he had come to Hungary at least partly to check whether the Danube was blue and get a taste of native gulyás. He recalled his own days as a boy down on the farm where he milked 20 cows every morning and coped with lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten...
...under the eyes of an astonished Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia is squaring off with the 1974 U.S. defender, Courageous, skippered by Turner- the Peck's Bad of Boy of yachting-in the waters off Newport...
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81 (the Juilliard Quartet, Rudolf Firkusny pianist, Columbia; the same work played by the Cleveland Quartet, Emanuel Ax pianist, RCA). This concert perennial is easily recognized by its opening second movement theme, a sound- alike for the late 1940s popular song Nature Boy. The quintet is often said to reflect the composer's sunny, lyric disposition, and even the swift changes in tempo and sudden clouds of melancholy cannot dampen the work's high spirits. Both the Juilliard with Firkusny and the Cleveland with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit...
...when the news goes out of it, the heart goes out of it,." Some of Lardner's work, however, is timeless. One such piece was originally written for the Saturday Evening Post in 1920, entitles "The Young Immigrunts." It's written in the voice of a nine-year-old boy, perhaps Ring's son. As Ring as his son head for their home in Connecticut, Yardley quotes what he considers to be one of Lardner's greatest lines...