Word: goats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood in 1961, only to endure some lean years: the leaner they got, the fatter he got. Gradually Carr's drive, persistence and imagination began paying off. He became personal manager for a string of luminaries who now include Ann-Margret, Nancy Walker...
...Schweiker gamble Reagan's last hope: unless uncommitted delegates or unenthusiastic Ford delegates in those big states could be won over to Reagan, the challenger could not possibly amass the needed 1,130 votes. Most Republicans agree that if Sears does not emerge from the convention as the goat of the G.O.P., he may well emerge as its genius...
Traditionally, the loudest cheer of West Point's graduation ceremonies goes to the "goat," the cadet who finishes at the bottom of his class. As No. 835 in a class of 835, Goat Jesse Owens won a creditable round of applause at Michie Stadium last week. But the biggest hand-an extravagant two-minute ovation-went to No. 757 in the class: William Andersen, chairman of the cadet-run Honor Committee that enforces the Military Academy's honor code. Said Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., commandant of cadets: "There was a message there for somebody...
...money (as opposed to either private banks or public ownership of the means of production), and in his attacks on banks he often atacked 'Jusury.' In 1935 he had agonized over his association of Jews with banks: "How long the whole Jewish people is to be a sacrificial goat for the usurer, I know not." But as time went on, as Pound got caught up in the rhetoric of Fascism, his antisemitism went beyond malevolent symbolism. Heymann tends to agree with Robert Fitzgerald's theory of Pound's anti-Semitism, that is, that Pound had become isolated and failed...
...responsible for arranging two recent breaks from Mexican jails. Ashman, who admits to some qualms about the MN2 format, notes: "Two minutes after I broke the story on Nixon's China trip, I was reporting from inside a nudist camp, and four minutes later I was interviewing a goat...