Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going down." The transients move into cheap clapboard weekly rentals around gloomy Garvey Avenue, then land a job in one of the little machine shops. They stay a month or a year: some schools report a 100% annual student turnover. "I don't live here, I exist," says Earl Vetter, 43, a machinist recently arrived from the East. "As soon as I find something I can afford, I'm getting...
...Earl Brown, a grocer, and his wife and twelve-year-old son had heard the tornado alerts early in the morning and knew that the watch expired at 5 p.m. At 4:30 they figured the twister had missed them. Minutes later it hit, demolishing the entire front of the house and turning the family car around...
...such alleged friend was Brigadier General Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at Long Binh base. According to Jack Bybee, a former Crum employee in Viet Nam, the general was paid $1,000 a month by Crum for favors. Once, when Crum was feeling threatened by the success of a competitor's slot-machine business, he asked Cole to initiate an investigation into the activities of his rival. The competitor was duly raided and forced to close. Afterward, Crum boasted that he had "paid for" the raid...
Astonishing Question. The plot began to take shape in 1968, when one Earl J. Williamson was assigned to the American embassy in San José as a political officer. Williamson, 55, also served as CIA station chief. While he was attached to the U.S. embassy in Havana during the Batista era, he had married the vivacious niece of a wealthy Cuban sugar baron. The Williamsons moved in wealthy San José circles, where Pepe Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President...
There has been no rush on the part of the other nominees to withdraw from Hollywood's yearly orgy of self-congratulation. Scott's fellow nominees for Best Actor (Melvyn Douglas in I Never Sang for My Father, Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope, Ryan O'Neal in Love Story) are all hanging right in there. The potential Best Actresses are, too. They include Carrie Snodgress in Diary of a Mad Housewife, Ali MacGraw in Love Story, Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope, Sarah Miles in Ryan...