Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolls or stamping their feet to ward off the autumn chill. By midmorning the crowd had doubled and doubled again, stretching across the court plaza all the way to First Street. Photographers maneuvered to capture celebrities as they arrived, including Senators Robert Griffin and Thomas Eagleton, and Mrs. Earl Warren, widow of the Chief Justice who presided over the historic school desegregation decision of 1954. As the crowds pressed forward, young demonstrators waved picket signs and chanted slogans...
...team known as the Jets, who shared a great castle with a team called the Mets. Throughout the land, there was a rumor that the Jets and Mets were not friends, even though they played on the same field. The Mets were owned by a miserly old richman, the Earl of Grant. This thrifty owner, known as Don to his friends, paid his players too little and acted selfish about his fields. He would never let the Jets play on his grass while the Mets were still playing. The scribes did not like selfish people, and they began to call...
Even Sir Tom, the hero of the Mets, was forced to leave by the mean Earl of Grant. And the scribes wrote more about fighting and lazy players, and less about heroes, and good things, and sports...
...spirit of tough determination," said the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations last week in a speech before the Synagogue Council of America. The occasion was the presentation of the council's peace prize to Miss Lillian, 79. Past recipients: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Earl Warren and Nelson Rockefeller. Why does Jimmy's mom rate such an award? Besides her efforts in India, Miss Lillian, explained Young, has lived a "constant struggle for peace amid the poverty, tension and differences in south Georgia." Well, shrugged his white-haired listener, it all came easy. Drawled Miss...
...there remains a feeling that the play does not truly do justice to the enormous scope of Robeson's life and his vision. On stage, Robeson the man essentially becomes James Earl Jones the actor: a prepossessing, engaging man, graciously humble about having led a life more inspiring than those of his audience. The playwrite, Philip Hayes Dean, defends this predictable, heart-warming treatment by pointing out that "if you take anybody's life and put it on stage, you have to make him charming; you're asking people to sit with him for two hours." And Paul Robeson never...