Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowing on glass-smooth Lake Waramug, Conn., with a slight tailwind, the heavies turned in one of their best performances this season, succumbing late in the race to stronger crews from Yale (first in 4:53.3), Princeton and Boston University. Stroking at a high cadence and finishing the last 500 meters of the course rowing both two power twenties and upping the cadence on beat every ten strokes, the heavies staved off a fierce University of Pennsylvania boat to bury any doubts about their sixth-place seed coming into the race...
...York Daily News from 1926 to 1972, lecturing readers on the dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page of liberal Collier's magazine. "An editorial writer," he explained, "is like a lawyer or a public relations...
...could persuade his board of directors to accept any such agreement. Then Prudential showed the way. After returning from Asia, Weill called Robinson and opened serious discussions. Over Easter weekend, the two men conducted a traveling talkathon that moved from Weill's 13-room home in Greenwich, Conn., to his seven-room apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to Robinson's nearby residence. When the deal was finally set, it was agreed that Weill would remain boss of Shearson, which for now will continue to be a separate company, and also head American Express's executive...
...copies of the Duffy movie bars are dispensing drama and drinks (and pizza and pepperoni) in East Hartford and North Haven, Conn. The Poor Richard's Pub and Cinemas were also started by two brothers, Richard and Rene Dupuis, 45 and 35, who wanted to branch out of their family charter bus business. They too will open more. Says Rene: "A young couple can go out, see a movie, have a pitcher of beer, a couple of sandwiches and a box of popcorn for under $10. There aren't many places left like that...
...winning 34 fights, earning some $500,000 and taking the championship from James J. Braddock -all in three years. He did not waste words, either: "As soon as I catch 'em, I put 'em to sleep." When critics doubted that he could take the lighter, classier Billy Conn in 1941, Louis observed, "He can run, but he can't hide...