Word: brogan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coach Lon Carnesecca added quickly to its three-point halftime lead on long set shots against the Crimson zone by guard Richie Lyons and Jim Smyth. Harvard couldn't narrow the gap to less than seven, and a last minute desperation 40-foot set shot by Crimson reserve Jeff Brogan completed the scoring...
...lobby, the spy paused to scuff at a frayed carpet edge with the toe of one glossy, custom-made Irish brogan. He sniffed the air. His glance shifted to the flowers on the coffee tables, skipped from ashtray to ashtray around the small room. Tilting his head back, he peered at the ceiling plaster and moldings. Finally, almost diffidently, he walked up to the counter and cleared his throat. "Yes, sir? What can I do for you?" inquired the receptionist. The spy plunked Fielding's Travel Guide down on the counter. "My name," he announced, "is Temple Fielding. I happen...
...world now appears inexplicably torn by tension and dissension, its vast treasure squandered with a profligate's hand, its fabulous beauty pockmarked by hideous urban scars. Has the American Dream become the American damnation, a formula for selfishness rather than equality and excellence? British Historian Sir Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored of the American way of life." Arthur Krock expresses a visceral fear that "the tenure of the United States as the first power in the world may be one of the briefest in history...
...candidates have wooed them; for a glorious week, they will stand at the whirling hub of decision. Yet they are widely described as mere tools of the true decision makers. The great scholars of American politics have largely ignored them: neither Tocqueville nor Lord Bryce nor Sir Denis Brogan take them very seriously. Yet these seemingly faceless men and women are now at the focus of national attention...
...Brogan Associates...