Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened. Two of the older boys, after staggering around with laughter at my ignorance, let me in on where babies come from, but I didn't believe it. After awhile we agreed to become a Biology Club, not through any interest in biology, though my brother, a character at DeWitt Clinton High School, had told me what it meant, but because being a Biology Club opened the delightful prospect of carving the date on a park bench followed by the letters B.C., to confound future archaeologists...
When he is able to work, DeWitt Easter, 59, is a skilled plasterer who can earn $175 a week in Washington, D.C. But Easter is seldom out of jail and sober. An alcoholic whose father was an alcoholic, he has been arrested 70 times for public intoxication-a "crime" for which Washington arrests 44,000 people a year. While such police work tidies up the streets, the fact that 70% of the arrests involve repeaters like Easter suggests that Washington's anti-drunk laws are more punitive than preventive. And it is just this premise that has spurred some...
...officer directing Exercise Delawar, General Paul DeWitt Adams, 57, is reputed to be the roughest, most hard-nosed American commander since General George S. Patton. Subordinates look into his leathery face, freeze before his cold stare and stern lips, dub him "Old Stoneface." The most combat-experienced commander on active duty, Adams expresses his military credo succinctly. Says he: "The man who creates the most violence in a military situation is the one who will...
...Jack Mamana (0-1) faces the Big Red's sophomore star DeWitt Burlingame (2-0-1). The 167 bout is another key one, as Crimson captain Fred Pereira (2-0 and second in the tournament) faces Jeff Stephens (2-1), who impressed Pickett as a freshman last year. Stephens' only defeat this year came at the hands of Peter Carey of Navy, who also beat Pereira in the tournament...
Astor was not a particularly original thinker, Author Terrell believes, but he thoroughly understood something his competitors did not-the value of political influence. In 1808 he appealed to the patriotism of Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, pointing out to him that three-quarters of the furs purchased in the U.S. were supplied by Canadian companies. A company establishing its headquarters in New York and extending its operations to the Pacific, Astor pointed out, would have the advantage over the Canadians of shorter lines of communication, enabling it to secure the trade for the U.S. and to stabilize...