Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest would have been a classic shootout for second place in the Ivies, a roof-raising barnburner between the 4-2 Lions--led by tough guards Alton Byrd and Ricky Free--and the 3-2 Crimson, led by Brian Banks and guard Glenn Fine...
Ford and Nixon compared golf games, Kissinger and Nixon compared books. Jimmy Carter asked Nixon when he had arrived in town and how long he planned to stay. Lady Bird Johnson was especially sympathetic when she saw Nixon, and held his hand warmly. So did Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Almost with eagerness, Carter, Ford and Nixon followed Baker into an anteroom for a historic picture of the three. In a few minutes it was time for these people to take their places beneath the Capitol dome to honor Hubert Humphrey...
...score of Senators undecided and 24 staunch conservatives adamantly opposed to the treaties and eager to bury the chance of approval under as many as 40 amendments. The White House believes the odds are in its favor because of two not-so-secret weapons: Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd and Minority Leader Howard H. Baker. Byrd has thrown his considerable support to the treaties, and Baker says he will back them as long as they are modified slightly. But how to wheedle the Senate's swing votes into joining them? "The one who knows that best is Byrd," says...
...Byrd then bought his own grocery store in Sophia, W. Va., and started earning credits for a bachelor's degree at three different West Virginia colleges. In 1952 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. "There was no time for leisure, no time for anything but work, work," says Byrd...
After three undistinguished terms in the House, he was swept into the Senate in the Democratic landslide of 1958. "Once into politics, I dreamed of going into the Senate," Byrd recalls. "It was like falling in love with my childhood sweetheart. I couldn't live without...