Word: fording
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...popular mind, guitarist Les Paul existed for half a decade: the years 1950-54, when he and his vocalist-wife Mary Ford enjoyed 16 Top 10 hits, including "How High the Moon" (No. 1 for nine weeks) and "Vaya Con Dios" (No. 1 for 11). Scanning the Great American Songbook for standards 20 or 30 years old, Paul would roast the chestnut into 2/4 time, add Ford's silky stylings and serve up a million seller like "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise," "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" or "Bye Blue Blues." Musical satisfaction guaranteed. (Read...
Richard Nixon gave astronaut Neil Armstrong the honor in 1969. Gerald Ford placed the medal around the necks of composer Irving Berlin, Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio and even LBJ's wife, Lady Bird Johnson, an early reach across the political aisle. In 1997, President Bill Clinton was commended in some quarters for awarding the honor to Bob Dole, whom he had just defeated in the 1996 election. But many Presidents keep it within their political party. During his tenure, Jimmy Carter awarded the Medal of Freedom to liberals like anthropologist Margaret Mead, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and biologist Rachel...
...While serving in the Navy during World War II, Schulberg was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where he worked with director John Ford's documentary unit. Schulberg created photo documentation for the Nuremburg trials and personally arrested German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria. Following his military service, Schulberg wrote the fight-racket novel The Harder They Fall and had no more movie credits until he and Kazan teamed up for On the Waterfront, for which John Garfield, Frank Sinatra and the young Paul Newman were touted for the Terry Malloy role...
...domestic carmakers - Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Chrysler - had less frothy numbers but still managed to pick up market share in July for the first time in months, at the expense of German and Japanese competitors. Ford emerged as one the program's biggest winners, posting a genuine sales increase for July over the same period last year; the automaker could also lay claim to the top vehicle purchased with clunker cash: the compact Ford Focus...
...Czubay, Ford vice president for U.S. marketing, sales and service, said Ford already had a relatively strong month in progress before the cash-for-clunkers program started, but it certainly helped. "We achieved a sales increase even though we decreased incentive spending in an increasingly competitive environment," he said. (See the most important cars of all time...