Word: flemming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hundred years ago, being appointed a Kentucky Colonel would have put Pacelli at the head of the state militia. The appointments became honorary in 1885, after the militia was disbanded, but even honorary colonels are charged with a formidable task. Former Kentucky Gov. Flem D. Sampson, a legend in colonel history, pronounced the group in 1931 “a great non-political brotherhood for the advancement of Kentucky and Kentuckians.” Seventy years later, Pacelli is proud to serve the same lofty ideal, determined to meet the high standards of his office and “throw...
...dark prince, Richard Nixon. Kennedy died and stayed dead. Nixon was the real Comeback Kid. Add a touch of Lyndon Johnson to Clinton's character - not the tragic, Lear-like LBJ, but the shrewd cornpone conniver, the genius politician - and finish the picture off with a quantity of Flem Snopes. There you have him, the Kingfish from Hot Springs, as gaudy and complicated as Americans...
...great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...
CONSIDER his image. On the platform, his head barely rises above the bulletproof lectern he takes with him everywhere. On the TV screen, he comes over as a cross between Flem Snopes and Huey Long. An uninspired orator, with a set, almost unvarying speech, he seems intentionally to mangle his syntax and mispronounce words. Yet he is the only presidential candidate in the fall of 1968 who could be called charismatic...
Schillebeeckx (pronounced shill-a-bakes) is an ardent advocate of change and renewal within the church. A Flem ish Belgian who teaches at the University of Nijmegen, he was a major influence on the revolutionary and highly popular "Dutch Catechism" .(TIME, Dec. 1). His voluminous writings, all of which have been published with episcopal imprimaturs, blend insights from Thomas Aquinas and modern existentialists, and his opinions are frequently provocative. He believes, for example, that Mary's perpetual virginity is symbolic rather than a biological fact. The resurrection, he suggests, does not imply the physical recomposition of Jesus' body...