Word: byron
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...course. His Sunday-afternoon television program during the football season has drawn better ratings than professional football broadcasts. The faithful tune in for a play-by-play commentary that is short on inside information but long on the kind of praise that can thrill the home folks. A sample: "Byron Braggs made a good tackle there. I know his mamma and daddy and all the folks in Montgomery are proud of Byron...
...years. With that growth comes every social pathology; when Rifle doubles in size, juvenile delinquency increases three times; the alcoholism rate increases four times; displaced homemakers increase 4.5 times. The immediate costs are immense, the long-term benefit doubtful." It is no wonder that some little communities, as Mayor Byron Farwell of Hillsboro, Va. (pop. 135) points out in the journal Small Town, "struggle to stay small...
...abortion and affirmative action, so is the country. And while it is difficult to predict what the court will do in general "liberal" or "conservative" terms, the voting records of the individual Justices are quite consistent. For instance, Justice Stewart usually votes liberal on criminal rights, conservative on race; Byron White votes just the other way. The only truly fickle Justice is the Chief Justice. He likes to be in the majority...
...throned on her hundred isles! -Lord Byron...
FOREIGN MATTER by Christopher Byron Doubleday; 253 pages...