Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, there was scarcely time to order a second round. To understand the reason for the ban, a familiarity with bedrock religion would be handy-that and oldtime values. And to understand its effect is to appreciate paradox. The contradiction, in the words of Circuit Court Judge J. Edward Tease, has been "institutionalized bootlegging." Too, as Architect Gerald Wade was instructing an inquisitor the other day, "Your question is phrased wrong. The question isn't how long the county has been dry, but, rather, whether it's ever been dry." One must call upon a distant memory...
...defense specialist "for the Library of Congress. The defense guidance report produced by the Pentagon often seems to be a web of rationales for buying all possible wonder weapons. "It does little to set meaningful priorities," says General David Jones, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Edward Luttwak, a conservative analyst, writes: "In lieu of strategy at all levels, we have only budgeting, programming and politics...
...closed in on Byrne in the campaign's final days, the issue of race, always an undercurrent, appeared for all to see. Byrne's campaign workers told voters that a vote for Daley was a vote for Washington. Exploiting fears of a black victory, Democratic Committee Chairman Edward Vrdolyak warned party members that the election was "a racial thing...
...star of the show was Cardiologist Edward Diethrich, 47, the deeply tanned, photogenic director of the Arizona Heart Institute in Phoenix. Among his previous credits: performing triple-bypass surgery on Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater last year. Diethrich's co-star and patient was Bernard Schuler, 62, a retired insurance salesman, who spends his winters in an Arizona trailer park. Schuler, a smoker for 41 years, had suffered a mild heart attack in 1977. A continued buildup of fatty deposits in his coronary arteries made him a prime candidate for a more serious second attack. Schuler's physicians recommended...
...London Philharmonic until 1957; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that is worthwhile, and more than a little of everything English...