Word: earls
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...strip away the excitement of the story. Charles II's father was at war with his own subjects by the time Charles was nine. When Charles was 11, he was sent to the House of Lords to plead for the life of the Earl of Strafford, the King's friend and servant. Parliament condemned Strafford anyway, and he was executed for high treason. At 12, he saw his first battle. At it, he left his father, who was soon captured by the Parliamentary troops, and never saw him again. When he was 19, his father was executed for high treason...
...that--on Rhodesia, Reagan proclaimed in 1976 that the United States should send in the troops. Or, digging back still earlier, in November 1966, when he told conservative Human Events that 'Social Security ought to be voluntary." A year earlier in the Washington Star, he offered this analysis of Earl Warren's abilities: "I think he's a lousy justice...
...society's heyday; Life,, in its "Washington Report," said the society was engaged in "a massive shift from a semi-clandestine political guerilla force to a quasi-respectable pressure group," devoted mostly to withdrawal from the U.N., exposure of the civil rights "fraud," and the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 placed the group "in the area of being humorous." But Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), in a comment that would haunt him in his presidential bid, said, "I am impressed by the people...
...cost-saving idea, the top award that members of a Westinghouse circle split up is $25,000. Says Earl Crehan, a vice president at the Baltimore plant: "The circles motivated our people. Unless management provides an environment of participation, we will not survive." Adds Georgette Schaefer, the supervisor of one circle: "They have all become minimanagers. They now take the job home with them...
...Earl T. Richardson, president of Harvard Black Law Students Association (HBLSA), which sponsored Cruse's lecture, said Monday that "the discussion was very open and thought provoking...