Word: governorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first best seller, Hell's Angels, in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes...
...first best seller, 'Hell's Angels,' in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m.," Iyer notes, "the pleasure of these letters is that they have all the rude vitality...
...baby sitter, starting when she was 14. The young woman, daughter of a prominent Massachusetts entrepreneur, has not commented on the matter, but prosecutors are investigating the statutory-rape allegations. Meanwhile, the new flap won't help Michael's brother Joseph, who has his eye on the Massachusetts governorship. Joseph's reputation is already taking a beating, thanks to a tell-all book by ex-wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy...
...which mandates a five-day waiting period before buying a handgun. He also sponsored a law making it illegal to obstruct access to abortion clinics, a popular move in the liberal Ninth. By no means camera shy, Schumer may be setting himself up to bid for New York's governorship...
...17th District contains some of the most fertile farmland in the world. It also nurtures G.O.P. politicians--Republicans held the governorship for all but eight years between 1860 and 1934--and Gekas has not won with less than 70% of the vote since he was elected with 58% in 1982. The Democrats did not even field a candidate against...