Word: cum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sonny Werblin, the Jets' high-rolling owner, got Joe with what was until then the biggest salary-cum-bonus offer ever given to a football rookie. Namath quickly won the starting assignment from Regular Mike Taliaferro and the man who had beaten him for the Heisman Trophy, Notre Dame's John Huarte. Before Joe, the Jets might as well have been the Pottstown Firebirds for all anyone cared about them; their only fans were grumpy football buffs who could not afford to pay scalpers' prices for scarce New York Giant tickets. Werblin knew what he was about...
With this bold declaration, mailed to various periodicals (including TIME), Victor Taylor, 28, announced his impending graduation, magna cum laude, from Southern Illinois University. He did indeed have a story to tell. A high school dropout from Dallas, he joined the Navy, tried to become a pilot but was disqualified for color blindness. That made him so "disenchanted with Navy life," as he put it, that he robbed a naval-station bank of $125,000 and ended with a ten-year prison term...
Steiner graduated magna cum laude, and following a year at the University of London, entered Harvard Law School. After law school, he held a one-year fellowship at the New York City Bar Association and then joined the New York firm of Patterson, Belknap...
...sing softly and expressively, as in the Confiteor unum baptisms. Their diction was clear; and strong emphasis was reserved for truly significant moments like the Crucifixus. The Choir showed immense poles in handling violent transitions: the Et resurrexit was a shock to the audience. Only once in the Cum Sancto spiritu was an entrance made without seemingly total assurance...
...perfect horn obbligato, the other soloists were very good. The oboes, flutes, and violins all accompanied with great care. The rarely-played Aeolian-Skinner organ of Symphony Hall was used with registrations quite appropriate to its role as a continuo instrument. It was especially effective in the Cum sancto spiritu and the exultant Et expecto resurrectionem...