Word: earl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after day through the summer, Earl Simpson, of Monroe, N.C., got up with the sun and peered through the mist around his farm, vainly praying for rain. Ninety percent of his corn was lost. The wheat will come in about 30% of usual; soybeans will make a miserable 15%. "We can't go much longer unless something changes," Simpson says. Then he pauses and his face grows tender and sad. "They say the best product off a farm is the children." Earl's two sons, who farm with him, look down. Simpson will join the combine cavalcade, crops...
...Earl said that although the design for the showwon an international water sculpture contest, thiswas the first time it had ever been produced...
...invention (a mounted suit of armor abruptly walks offstage; ancestor portraits come alive and tap-dance) and a hugely likable cast, led by Robert Lindsay as the newfound aristocrat and Maryann Plunkett as the plucky working-class girl who means more to him than ermine and marbled halls. The earl-to-be spurns his title for love, the girl rejects his proposals so as not to deprive him, and love finally conquers all -- with the slyly introduced help of Shaw's Henry Higgins, the alchemist of social class who makes a convincing duchess of a flower girl in Pygmalion...
...York, Ron Guidry is washed up and Joe Niekro has a 9.71 earned runs average in his last eight starts. The Yankees last week started two pitchers, Al Holland and Tim Stoddard, who had not started for four years. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, manager Earl Weaver was using former Cy Young award winner Mike Flanagan in relief. The only team in the division whose record matches up with Boston's against the East is the Toronto Blue Jays. The Red Sox are certainly not one of baseball's all-time great teams, but for the rest of the year they should...
...Philadelphia, strikers are led by Union Leader Earl Stout, a stubborn antagonist of Mayor Goode's, who has boastfully asserted that the city cannot run without him. At week's end, negotiations were under way, large numbers of workers were returning to their jobs, and Stout hinted that an end to the strike might be in sight. That was a hopeful sign since, as one negotiator for the city saw it, "Earl will settle when he wants to settle...