Word: easton
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...being in such a harsh business and around such hard men, most boxers are incongruously gentle, including Larry Holmes. He is a child of both Cuthbert, Ga., and Easton, Pa. The seventh of Flossie Holmes' dozen children, he grew up lisping when he talked and lashing out when he was frustrated. One of his strongest motivations for not losing is the thought of the schoolyard taunting that he fears would await his children. He left school in the seventh grade, the year his father, a manual laborer, left home. Holmes laments his lack of education. In a dream...
Surely those six girls were lovely; certainly they were daring. Lula Easton gave an oration called "Sculptors of Government." One wonders if she dwelt on Chester A. Arthur, the first voluptuary to hold the presidency. Even then he was planning to decorate the White House to resemble a gambling parlor. (Harry Truman claimed that the self-indulgent Arthur harbored a woman of sin on the premises.) Back then, Greenfield High School's Nellie Garlock may have had all this in mind when she recited "Virtue's Laurels...
Machines are starting to speak up in a wide range of situations. Exit-Us of Easton, Conn., is marketing signs for hotels and other public buildings that broadcast the word exit in up to three languages during a fire or other emergency. Next year Chrysler reportedly will introduce a car that will tell the driver when the gas supply and oil pressure are low. Three weeks ago, the Federal Aviation Administration approved the Digital Readout Weather System, a machine that gives incoming pilots the time of day, temperature, barometric pressure and other vital information. Says Exit-Us President Tim English...
Jacquelyn Rogers, Founder Smokenders Easton...
PhilHaskell Easton, Conn...