Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When San Furanshisuko Saberyusu, as the Japanese called the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, landed at Kagoshima in 1549, he was not quite the first Westerner to enter Japan. But the Portuguese merchants who had arrived before him were viewed with well-bred distaste by the Japanese. What could one make of such odd-colored, hairy, round-eyed barbarians? "I do not know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings...
Phil Brown leads the way for the Bruins as he is averaging 14.9 points a game and 11.9 rebounds. Vaughn Clarke is the second leading scorer hitting 12.1 points a contest. Directing the Bruins attack will probably be Brooklyn bred guard Eddie Morris who is contributing 11.4 points a game...
...film down to 12, but he arranged his episodes out of chronological order, beginning with the last day's filming, New Year's Eve, 1971, and then recapitulating the previous seven months. From the first episode, Gilbert tried to exploit the audience's morbid curiosity about marital failure (bred of long years of afternoon suds drama) by making the Louds' separation the touchstone of his story. He counterpoints a painful phone conversation between Bill and Pat four months after their separation by flashing back to a breakfast at the start of the filming to show the couple "at the beginning...
Tough, smart and profane, he ranks with Henry Clay, Thomas Reed and Sam Rayburn among the most powerful Speakers ever. A bred-in-the-bone Republican from Illinois, he was first elected to the House in 1872-a century ago-and served a total of 46 years...
...well Brennan's new hat will fit is another matter.* It is surely not one he is used to. Born and bred in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, given to plain speech laced with profanity, Brennan is a local power, to be sure, but he lacks a national constituency and-some would say-anything approaching national vision. Though he is respected by George Meany, he is not a member of the AFL-CIO executive committee. He speaks for a well-paid labor elite, not for the industrial rank and file...