Word: earl
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...Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
...Ireland. It will stand as one of history's sad ironies that Mountbatten had never taken part in the dispute over the control of Ulster and that, in fact, the Tories counted him a dangerous left-winger and a partisan of self- determination. But he was an English earl and a cousin of the Queen, and he died a sacrifice to the kind of tribal hatred he had worked so hard in India to overcome...
...Earl Webb...
...Gene Mauch, Billy Martin, Sparky Anderson, and Earl Weaver all played the same position in their playing careers-second base. Catchers and infielders comprise the vast majority of big league managers, but former pitchers have managed three of the last seven World Series winners. Ten points if you can name two of the three...
Schmidt, a former Earl Warren law clerk, notes pointedly, "Chief Justice Warren, as he was retiring, said several times he wanted to leave in good health to set an example for others to follow before their powers became impaired." But informing a failing Justice when to leave has always been a delicate matter. At the turn of the century, when one member of the court was designated to suggest resignation to the often befuddled octogenarian Stephen Field, the younger man eased into the subject by reminding him of a similar visit Field had once had to make to a senior...