Word: brough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Confederacy; though it is more Western in the look of the land and its yield, the state has never embraced the West's expansionist, assimilative outlook. Instead, in the eyes of the world it seemed aimlessly insular, obdurately independent-and comically backward. As then-Governor Charles Brough boasted 50 years ago: "You could build a wall around the state of Arkansas and its people would be self-sufficient...
...Frankly Ludicrous." Understandably, the commission report stirred up dissent. Stocks of TV companies, whose revenues depend heavily on soap ads, plunged on the London exchange. Said Lever Chairman Edward Brough, 48; "Exercising her choice in a free market, the British housewife has struck a good balance between the high cost of unlimited choice and the low cost of no choice at all." P. & G. pointed out that detergent prices have gone up only 8% in the last seven years, as against 18% for the whole retail price index. Said London's weekly Observer: "The TV commercials are sickening...
...other Crimson victories were recorded by John Hawkins and Bob Seelert. Peter Tague and Wayne Thorn-brough each lost two down...
...self-congratulation about her book than there was about Lolly's ("It's a terrible book," said Lolly candidly of her own, "I wrote every word of it"), it is perhaps because it was written with the help of an assistant named James Brough. Hopper-Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly Musical Comedy Star DeWolf Hopper, a so-so career in films, and finally a column in 1938-and then turn to the kind of keyhole chitchat about "mad, gay, heartbreaking" Hollywood that...