Word: fords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...
...Ford Professor of Business Administration Michael C. Jensen took home $192,333 in salary and more than $50,000 in benefits and other compensation...
Word of the flight soon went out, and the crowds were on their feet, cheering. Police picked up O.J.'s cellular-phone calls and began tracking the Ford Bronco along the San Diego Freeway. Reporters pursuing in helicopters overhead said that he had a gun to his head. People pulled up their lawn chairs to the side of the road to wait for the cortege to pass. They lined the overpasses, waving, shouting, holding up signs -- Go O.J. Go -- as if he were trying to elude a pack of motorized tacklers...
...real guarantee against capital punishment is his celebrity, not his wealth. Imagine that the scenario we've all had running through our head actually happened: that O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco over to his ex- wife's town house, donned a pair of gloves, confronted her and a man he at least thought was her boyfriend, inflicted "multiple sharp force injuries and stab wounds" (the coroner's report) on both and slit her throat to boot. Two deaths. Premeditated. Gruesome. No obvious complicating or mitigating circumstances...
Gilbert and Sullivan purists will hate the The Hot Mikado, at Washington's Ford's Theatre and apparently on its way to Broadway. Musically, they will deplore the conversion of W.S. Gilbert's candybox-pretty score into swing, jazz and gospel arrangements that bounce like the 1940s. Lyrically, they will ask themselves which is worse, rewriting some of Arthur Sullivan's urbane verse (one big laugh comes when Katisha, a scorned lady of the court played as a black street diva by Loretta Devine, screeches, "You piss me off!") or rendering much of what is left all but unintelligible through...