Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oddity: of the six supporters who signed the 1,400 invitations, only Feulner attended. The no-shows: Brewer Joseph Coors, Financier Justin Dart, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, the Moral Majority's Rev. Jerry Falwell and Columnist William Buckley. Dart was in the hospital, and the others said they had previous engagements...
...also sent off a barrage of letters to the media. William Buckley, editor of the conservative National Review, responded and became a believer. With Buckley's help, Saxon got a small foundation grant and wrote two pugnacious and polemical articles in the magazine about textbooks and the teaching of algebra. They stirred considerable controversy, bringing Saxon a national audience and, eventually, hundreds of letters from teachers and parents curious about the book. Because of the articles and the Oklahoma test results, schools all over the country are now requesting Saxon's book. Fifty schools in Oklahoma have adopted...
...Congress and talk another way to a journalist friend who quoted him in the Atlantic Monthly had shown himself "open to evidence." Try telling that to a Congressman whose vote turned on believing Stockman's knowing deceptions the first time around. Or consider the reaction of Columnist William Buckley, who lapses into a worldly archness when someone on his side gets into trouble. "What is truly astonishing," Buckley wrote, "is that there should be such an astonishment" about Stockman's words; he had been guilty, at worst, only of using "here and there an unfortunate metaphor...
...haven't opened up passing, but that's up to [Harvard coach Joe Restic]. But Ron can do it all--and if he ever gets the opportunity to open up you'll see things that have never been done before at the Stadium, not by Kubacki, not by Brian Buckley, not by anybody...
Last season, the Game's prelude had all the ingredients necessary for a classic match-up. Harvard Stadium was dotted with ABC cameras as the two squads squared off with the Ivy League title on the line. Crimson quarterback Brain Buckley, who had led Harvard past Army at West Point, had not lost a game he started all season. Yale had plowed through its Ivy opponents with its characteristic ease until Cornell had abruptly stopped the steamroller. This, it appeared, would rank among the best of Games...