Word: earl
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Elizabeth, ninth child of the 14th Earl of Strathmore, lived an unfettered life until she married Prince Albert, second son of King George V. In her public duties, she was unfailingly gracious, with one conspicuous exception: while her brother-in-law, King Edward VIII reigned, she cold-shouldered Wallis Simpson. Her friends say that she could not accept their rejection of duty...
...alienation made the President unnecessarily hesitant to direct his brother not to get entangled with the Libyans. According to family and friends, nothing hurt Billy more than what Jimmy did with the family's farm and peanut warehouse. Billy inherited a love for the soil from his father Earl, who used to tell him: "Someday you'll be in charge of things when you grow up. Jimmy's chosen the Navy, and you've chosen the land...
...when Earl died in 1953, Billy was 16, too young to manage the business. Jimmy resigned from the Navy and came home to take over. The day after Billy graduated from high school, he joined the Marine Corps. He came home in 1959 to work as a truck driver for Jimmy. Frustrated and unhappy, Billy enrolled 18 months later in Atlanta's Emory University but dropped out after two quarters...
Finally, the cello has been the means of livelihood for a number of Black musicians, including Leonard Jeter (1881-1970); Donald White (b. 1925), a long-time member of the Cleveland Symphony; and Earl Madison (b. 1945), who joined the Pittsburgh Symphony's cello section at 19. We shall doubtless hear more of Ronald Lipscomb, who like Marcus Thompson made a strong impression at the recent Washington competition...
...house that former Chief Justice Earl Warren built was supposed to have been reduced to ruins. The current Supreme Court, which includes four Justices appointed by Richard Nixon and one named by Gerald Ford, was expected to undo many of the far-reaching precedents that Warren's liberal court fashioned between 1954 and 1969 on race, defendants' rights and other explosive issues. Yet as Chief Justice Warren Burger and his colleagues packed their summer bags last week, appraisers of their latest term agreed on one thing, if on little else: while some parts of the Warren Court legacy...