Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked if he considered it possible that he would ever again play a role in American politics. Earl Browder, 65. head of the Communist Party. U.S.A.. during its 14 most powerful years (1931-45), drew thoughtfully on his pipe and replied: "Realistically, there are no grounds on which anyone could base such a prediction...
Arriving in New Delhi, U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren and his wife received a warm, top-drawer greeting as a platoon of Cabinet ministers, a horde of judges and a mass of minor officials swarmed at the airport under a broiling sun and presented the visitors with six bouquets of flowers and batches of garlands. It was a command performance. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been shown a dispatch printed in a U.S. newspaper reporting the cool kiss-off the Warrens had gotten when they arrived...
Britain's Earl of Sandwich, 81. whose noble ancestor, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, is credited with inventing the sandwich in the 18th century, accepted an award from the U.S.'s National Pickle Packers Association in recognition of the service that the sandwich has rendered to the consumption of pickles...
Glitter on the Lagoon. Last week in New Delhi, Chief Justice Earl Warren took time out from his crowded traveler's agenda to set the cornerstone for the handsomest new embassy to date, a $1,000,000, gilded-aluminum columned, concrete-and-marble chancery. Its designer: Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone, a co-designer of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and architect for Panama's superdeluxe, 300-room El Panama Hotel. When it is completed in early 1958, it will perch over a null lagoon and glitter in the hot Indian sun like a maharaja...
...swordsmanship so vigorously that his right arm and shoulder developed at the expense of his left, making him seem "crookback'd." What is certain is that at the age of 18 he was a trusted general and led a flank of his brother's army against the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. (Author Kendall's maps show modern landmarks so the reader can picture Warwick driving south across the "Golf Links.") But only with the sudden death of Edward IV does Richard step into the limelight-chosen by his dying brother as Lord Protector...