Word: earl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than token consideration for Anne Armstrong; Son Jack liked a mayor, Pete Wilson of San Diego, and two Governors, Christopher ("Kit") Bond of Missouri and Dan Evans of Washington. Henry Kissinger promoted a lame-duck incumbent, his former mentor Nelson Rockefeller. Of the Cabinet members, only Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz recommended Dole highly?because of the Kansan's popularity in the farm belt...
Tanglewood. Weekend Prelude, Earl Wild, piano, 7 p.m. Arthur Fiedler conducts all-Gershwin program...
During the eight-hour pole vault final I was vocally rooting for United States entrants Dave Roberts and Earl Bell. I fear that if I had not, the tense, close competition which featured more of athletes psyching each other and themselves than actual leaping would have been a more effective cure for insomnia than a bottle of Nytol. Certainly, as the endless, often meaningless myriad of women's and men's track heats was paraded before me, the eye searched hopefully for a familiar face and the blue and red costumes with USA lettering on which to focus...
...defending champion at 5,000 and 10,000 meters who had gone on the banquet circuit in Finland for three years before returning to a rigid training regimen. But usually I was best acquainted with the American athletes. I was familiar with Dave Roberts's rivalry with teammate Earl Bell, who traded the world record from week to week during the spring. When all else failed, one could always find an American runner to urge on, for the sake of having someone to cheer...
...Negro National League who figures the time has come to stand up against the gangsterism of the club owners. He puts together his own club, with some of the league's best talent and with the help of a heavy-hitting catcher named Leon Carter (James Earl Jones). An actor with the kind of power that can easily turn to bluster, Jones here is at his best; he makes Leon appropriately larger than life without ever letting him be come a sports-page cartoon...