Word: englands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said. Osborne, an avid mountain climber, skiier and snowboarder, said that he spent the last two years working four jobs to finance the $25,000 expedition and training for it. Osborne was climbing to raise funds for Naomi House, a children’s hospice in his native England.“Every penny I raised went to the charity. Not one single cent of the expedition came from donations,” Osborne said.The expedition was Osborne’s last chance to summit Everest this year—the climbing season closes on May 31, when monsoons begin...
...midst of the controversy, Gomes rushed back from his sabbatical in England to defend the Foundation at a March Faculty meeting...
...true French traditionalist: he believes that France should support its own. Many multimillion-dollar equipment contracts expire at the end of World Cup play in July. Koné reasons that with Germany's Adidas equipping the Nationalmannschaften, the U.S.'s Nike supplying Team U.S.A. and Britain's Umbro sponsoring England, "I can only hope France will now chose a French company like Airness to supply its uniforms." The French national team playing in a brand created in the projects by a man who immigrated to France from a village in Mali - that would be something...
...school, I was two years younger than everybody in my class, so I got beaten up all the time, and I got laughed at for being interested in studying,” he told the Academy of Achievement in a 2001 interview. Following a year of studying art in England, Brown arrived at Harvard in Fall 1951 with little advance notice.After settling into their Thayer room, Swett and his roommate Charles C. “Charlie” Cunningham Jr. ’56 were called into the office of Freshman Dean Francis Skiddy von Stade...
...Oxford, England Then, according to plan, [Chris] Chataway sprinted into the lead, [Roger] Bannister right at his heels. Some 300 yds. from the finish, Bannister began pouring it on, lengthening his stride for his famed finishing kick, his head rolled back, his neck painfully arched. He tore the tape and collapsed unconscious into the arms of Trainer [Franz] Stampfl. "I wasn't thinking about anything in particular," he said afterward. "I saw the tape faintly ahead, put everything into getting there and that was the last I knew about it." Over the loudspeakers came the meticulous voice of the announcer...