Word: clemently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, victims of the apocalyptic burnout endemic to '70s rock bands. Now Strange Fruit is back for one fractious nostalgia trip to make a few quid and see if the flame still burns. This retro comedy, cannily written by The Commitments' Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, gives such fine British actors as Bill Nighy, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail and Bruce Robinson the chance to strut, scowl, sing some jaunty tunes (by '70s survivors Mick Jones, Steve Dagger and Jeff Lynne) and define what it means to be mates in a middle age the rockers never thought they...
Flynn listed Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Clement C. Moore, author of "A Visit from Saint Nichols," or "`Taws the Night before Christmas," Francis Church and Thomas Nast as DWAMQs. Queen Victoria was also implicated, he said...
...different industries. If, as I believe, the automobile is the product of the century, we could easily have filled the list with the names of famous automakers, including Alfred P. Sloan, Charles Kettering and William Durant (all from General Motors), Walter Chrysler, Ferdinand Porsche (Porsche and Volkswagen), Ransom Olds, Clement Studebaker and the Dodge brothers. Henry J. Kaiser not only built cars but also played a key role in shipbuilding, construction, housing and hospitals. In the end, however, we settled on Henry Ford because his individual genius was so responsible for automating the assembly line and building the industry...
...first public hearing on the Duke-Durham Regional merger, held in a black church, city councilman Howard Clement, an African American, voiced a widely shared concern when he stood up and asked, "Can we trust Duke?" It was, and is, the big question, Clement believes, "and the jury is still...
...people of color in Durham, Duke is more than just the hospital; it is "a white university hidebound by Southern tradition," as Clement puts it. Like most members of the town's minority community, Clement never wanted to go to Duke Hospital because it was viewed as a place where "they experimented on you." In 1968, when he was badly bruised in a head-on car collision, Clement screamed at the ambulance driver, "Don't take me to Duke! I don't want to go to Duke...