Word: edwin
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Some look for moral messages in sprees and schneiders. Joe DiMaggio's 56- game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
...throwing a cloud over the man who is the highest-ranking Democrat in the country and who will be banging the gavel at this summer's Democratic Convention. At midweek Vice President George Bush played this game when he turned questions about the ethics of Attorney General Edwin Meese into a call for an independent counsel to investigate Wright...
Senior Correspondents: Mary Cronin, Murray J. Gart (Special Projects); Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan refused to say yesterday whether he had approved the dropping of drug charges against Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega and defended embattled Attorney General Edwin Meese III, saying his longtime friend would live "under this cloud" if he resigned...
Senior Correspondents: Mary Cronin, Murray J. Gart (Special Projects); Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst...