Word: dame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English stage since 1928, Johnson endeared herself to U.S. audiences through such films, besides Brief Encounter, as In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1947) and Captain's Paradise (1953), in which she embodied the quintessential Englishwoman, mature and intelligent. Last year she was made a Dame of the British Empire...
What happened is now tragic history. A mentally ill Allan Goodman forced his way into the Dame of the Rock mosque, and opened fire indiscriminately on the Muslim worshippers within. All hell broke loose. Word of the shooting quickly spread to all quarters of the city, and the residents of East Jerusalem poured into the streets and surged towards the mosque in fury...
...Unable to land its helicopter in Perquin because of fighting in the area, Murtha's party looked down to see long lines of voters waiting patiently to cast their ballots. In the departmental capital of San Miguel, Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame and a U.S. observer, happened upon a funeral cortege. A mother was burying her soldier son, whose face had been sliced away by a guerrilla machete. There was no priest there, so Hesburgh offered the last rites. And to the mother, who was going to vote, he presented a rosary given...
Leading up to the Final Four in New Orleans, the National Collegiate Athletic Association news had been dominated by the candor of Notre Dame Coach Digger Phelps-"revelation" was the word used in the dispatches, but it was hardly that. He merely said that the going rate for a player on the black market, usually situated in a black neighborhood, was $10,000 per year of his college career. Phelps knew coaches who were buying, and though he named no names, the name for men who make their living cruising the ghettos and romancing children is well known. A seamier...
SOUTH BEND. Ind.--Notre Dame University recently expelled two students spending their sophomore year abroad for the sale on drugs, and an additional 20 undergraduates face suspension when they return at the end of the semester...