Word: criers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNRUH ON WAY. called the Town Crier, newspaper of Yale's Timothy Dwight College. So he was-and Yale did not know quite what to expect of California's Jesse Marvin Unruh (pronounced un-rue), who was traveling East to become this year's first Chubb Fellow...
Throughout eight long weeks of election campaigning, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, insisted that "steady growth and expansion is the climate of Canada today." Anyone, such as Opposition Leader "Mike" Pearson, who pointed to vanishing exchange reserves or fleeing foreign capital, was dismissed as a "crier of gloom and doom." Last week, barely six days after he squeaked back to power with a wobbly minority government, Diefenbaker abruptly turned about to announce that Canada's foreign exchange reserves had dwindled so alarmingly that he had been forced to call on the 'U.S., Great Britain...
...session of the U.S. Supreme Court began last week with the court crier's customary call, "Oyez, oyez, oyez." But right after that, Chief Justice Earl Warren leaned forward, half-smiled, and shattered an old tradition. Henceforth, he announced, the court will meet at 10 a.m. each Monday through Thursday instead of at noon. Reason: to speed up the work of the court, which this fall has 1,063 cases already on the docket-a record for the opening of a session...