Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflexible rule of journalese is that American assassins must have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman. This courtesy of a resonant three-part moniker is also applied to other dangerous folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz" to many journalists who consider him a monster, and just plain "Bernhard Goetz" to almost everyone else. Another rule of the language is that euphemisms for "fat" are understood too quickly by the public and are therefore in constant need of replacement. "Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned...
...Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA yesterday signed three-time Ivy League scoring leading Earl "Butch" Graves...
...producer have to return to Hollywood for editing and other postproduction work. New York City has vastly expanded the Kaufman Astoria Studios, where many silent films were shot in the '20s, and sound stages are being constructed all over the city. The flamboyant North Carolina film producer Earl Owensby who already owns one studio in Shelby, N.C., is building another: an ambitious 426-acre facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C., which also includes a theme park. Texas, which last year yielded a bumper crop of Academy Award-nominated films-Terms of Endearment, Silkwood and Tender Mercies-boasts...
...Supreme Courts subtle or overt, nave yielded mixed results. Just prior to the election, Justice William Rehnornst stated that attempts to find predictable justices have more often than not, backfired. The most famous recent example of a judge coming out of the after appointment was former Chief Justice Earl Warren. An Eisenhower appointee. Warren led the most liberal Court in history as it upheld the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and established many of the laws regarding prisoners rights that are currently in eclipse...
...beginning of the end of the trouble appears to be at hand, and assessments of the emotional losses have begun to be tallied. Perhaps the most eloquent statement on the damage to the national psyche came last week from the 90-year-old Earl of Stockton, who as Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Bent with age and leaning on a silver-topped cane, he rose from a red leather bench in the House of Lords to deliver his maiden speech to a hushed, expectant house. Referring to the strike, he said, "It breaks my heart...