Word: dreadnought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, who could say with certitude that Nixon did not look like a Chief Executive and that Kennedy did, or vice versa? Is a President clean-cut? Ulysses S. Grant would have fit right in at an Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Trim? Honest Grover Cleveland's dreadnought corpulence might have served as a model for Thomas Nast's potbellied crooks. Is the presidential face august, humane, agleam with probity? John Adams might have been cast as Scrooge or a consecrated bookkeeper. John Quincy Adams looked incipiently satanic. James Monroe's bug-eyed visage might have...
...revels are ended. That white dreadnought of a house at 165 Eaton Place is deserted, although two weddings sweeten the sorrow...
...Penn, the strong performance last night coming after last weekend's 86-85 win over Columbia--then the Ivy League leader--makes the Quakers look more and more like the super-dreadnought they were supposed to be at the start of the season...
After last night's rankling loss, the Crimson will once again try to bid adieu to disappointment and spleen when it scraps with Ivy League super-dreadnought Princeton tonight at Jadwin Gymnasium...
...year of William Faulkner's death. The coincidence was not lost on litterateurs. Ever since, Price has been the odds-on favorite of those who believe that the U.S. must always have a Southern writer-in-residence whispering of dark doings behind the magnolia. This dreadnought of a family saga (Price's fourth novel) proves that he has earned the title. It is also strong evidence that the post is obsolete...