Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police said that she was found lying on her bed in her nightgown with massive lacerations of the head. Detective Lieutenant Leo Davenport speculated that the injury was effected by a hatchet or cleaver. There was no sign of forcible entry, but the door and window were unlocked and indications were that an intruder had entered by climbing the fire escape to the fourth floor apartment. Miss Britton lived alone...
...unconscionably bad. The bass, Mr. Mac Morgan, was totally inadequate to his tasks, displaying no vestige of tone and only a certain diaphrammatic eloquence. Paul Huddleston, the tenor, was the best of the four soloists, but was unremittingly routine. The two women, soprano Chloe Owen and contralto Mary Davenport, sang like superannuated Valkyries, spoiling the quartet passage with their mettalic loudness, and obliterating every bar they touched...
Lowell tallied 18 points in the first half in dumping Davenport-Pierson 24-0, while Kirkland's Mike Gannon led an offensive attack that rolled over their Yale opponents...
...stand at attention when The Star-Spangled Banner or any other national anthem is played. Other equally militant U.S. black athletes were aghast at Smith and Carlos' actions. "I came here to win a gold medal-not to talk about black power," said Ohio's Willie Davenport next day after winning the 110-meter high hurdles. He stood straight and tall and proud on the Olympic pedestal...
...Such was my loneliness that after a time I ascribed human characteristics to the mutt. I talked to him constantly ('Let me tell you about the ambiguity of Henry James, Christie'). I taught him to sit up manlike, his spine leaning against the back of the davenport; and with my arm thrown buddy-like over his shoulder, we sat and 'watched' the television together. I even made him a little blue sweatshirt, a replica...