Word: famous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...famous World War II cartoon by Bill Mauldin, an Army officer asked the same question as he gazed upon a spectacular vista...
Erik Roth is used to being in the shadow of his roommates Shaw and Keith Colburn, who holds the University record in the half-mile. The quiet, rangy Minnesotan is famous for finding last-minute dates for the Saturday night parties which are rapidly becoming a cross-country tradition. "Elf" puts a lot of thought into his running and wrote a number of lengthy, detailed letters to his teammates last summer...
...relations to the adult world that more and more impinged on his imaginary creations were marked by the same childhood sense of play. John was constantly manipulating the world, around him, playing pranks, playing with words, putting people on. Even his famous Teddy-boy (juvenile delinquent) phrase was a bit of a put-on: "I was imitating Teds, pretending to be one...If I'd met a proper Ted I'd have been shit scared...
Governor Ronald Reagan, an ex-officio member of the University of California board of regents who has had his quarrels with Berkeley in the past, compared the appointment to "asking that famous Bluebeard of Paris, the wife murderer, to be a marriage counselor...
...career of a famous trial lawyer is not always as predictably successful as Perry Mason's. Take the case of F. Lee Bailey. Lately his TV talk show was dropped, a New Jersey judge dismissed him as defense attorney in a murder trial because of "grossly unethical conduct," and filming of The Sam Sheppard Story, in which Bailey was to have played himself, was postponed. Now Albert DeSalvo, the self-proclaimed Boston Strangler, has replaced Bailey with a lawyer who was admitted to the Massachusetts bar less than a year ago. Shrugs the Great Defender: "If somebody else wants...