Word: ellision
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tom Ellis felt doublecrossed. It was nearly 2 a.m., and the chairman of the North Carolina delegation had asked for a roll-call vote on a pro-Reagan foreign policy amendment to the Republican platform, when pro-Ford Convention Chairman John Rhodes ordered a voice vote and gaveled the session...
Yet things do change. Ellis Island is a sort of museum now.
The tide of immigration, which built the railroads and cattle towns of the West, flowed on for another generation. Some 8.8 million arrived during the first decade of this century, and in 1907, the inspectors at Ellis Island processed an alltime daily record of some 6,500 Italian peasants and...
Competing Objects. The most powerful New York picture is not of the city. Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother shows two proud, exhausted people as they might have landed at Ellis Island. It was painted, however, from an old snapshot and memory; Gorky's mother died...
Tiant gave up eight hits, struck out three and issued no walks. The four Yankee pitchers--Ellis, Martinez, Dave Pagan, and Dick Tidrow--struck out four Red Sox and gave up six walks.