Word: edwardes
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...Crane and Republican L. Joyce Hampers. While Hampers aggressively paints the 22-year incumbent as a good old boy from the days of the smoke-filled room and the well-greased palm, Crane has attacked the Republican's record during her tenure as State Revenue Commissioner under Governor Edward J. King...
Three other Americans were kidnapped--Frank Herbert Reed, Joseph James Cicippio and Edward Austin Tracy--and other groups claimed to be holding them. Christian radio stations and television reported the previous two days that six kidnapped Americans and two of eight French hostages would be freed...
...recent letter signed by 600 Harvard students and sent to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the students argued that this refusal violates the Final Act of the 1975 Helsinki Accord, which requires that such applications be handled in a "positive and humanitarian spirit with special attention being given to requests of an urgent character...
Barrett served as a State Representative from Reading, Mass. until 1984, when a game of musical chairs similar to this year's left him standing at the end. U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas announced his retirement for health reasons, and his vacated seat attracted U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) as a candidate. Markey's empty position, in turn, drew a large field of candidates, including Barrett...
Although the agents of all these infections remained a mystery, the first safe vaccine against a viral disease was developed in the 18th century by Edward Jenner, a doctor in rural England. Jenner noticed that farmhands who contracted cowpox, a mild disease related to smallpox, did not develop the more deadly disease. In 1798 he inoculated a boy with material from a milkmaid's cowpox sore, then demonstrated that the lad had developed immunity to smallpox...