Word: ernest
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...Died. Ernest Nixon, 85, President Nixon's uncle, a professor of plant pathology at Pennsylvania State University from 1917 to 1940, who, for his successful efforts in encouraging farmers to grow potatoes in the hard Pennsylvania soil, was known variously as "the Potato Wizard of Pennsylvania," the "Knute Rockne of Spudland" and the "Billy Sunday of Potatodom"; of cancer; in Bellefonte...
...ERNEST GRUENING was defeated for reelection to the Senate last year by a 38-year-old moderate who claimed to stand "more in the main-stream" of American opinion on Vietnam. The claim had at least the virtue of being true: at 82, Ernest Gruening has yet to join anyone's mainstream...
...ERNEST H. GRUENING was born in New York City in 1887, the son of a wealthy doctor. Attracted to Harvard by a talk given at his high school by a president of the Harvard Crimson named Franklin Roosevelt, Gruening enrolled here in the class of 1907, and later entered the Harvard Medical School...
...very goals that the policy sought to achieve. You can deal with a man so long as he's willing to state his position within the terms that you lay out for him; but if he refuses to do that, there's nothing left but to ignore him. So Ernest Gruening was, for all his insight and suffering, someone to be tolerated and ignored. Maybe his problem is that, like the New York dailies, his uncompromising morality has simply become obsolete...
...Died. Ernest Ansermet, 85, who founded I'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 1918 and conducted it with precision and puissance for 49 years; of a heart attack; in Geneva. A daring innovator, Ansermet was acclaimed by critics for his imaginative forays into Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky. The Suisse Romande was always his first love, but he also helped found I'Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and occasionally shared the baton with Toscanini at the New York Philharmonic...