Word: greig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...previous books as Before the Deluge and City of Nets and a TIME senior writer. In Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations (Random House; $24.95), Friedrich counterpoints Gould's prolific writings with the reminiscences of more than 80 people who knew him, from Leonard Bernstein to his cousin Jessie Greig. The result is a guided tour through the mind of a haunted original who dreamed of "a world where nobody cared what anybody else was doing...
...Verena Greig El Khobar, Saudi Arabia
...when he knocked on the door at 10:30 p.m., Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto was not arriving fashionably late for a nightcap. He handed the Americans a curt note declaring that there were three spies on the embassy staff-Political Affairs Counselor Linda Pfeifel, First Secretary David Greig and Second Secretary Ermila Rodriguez-and they were hereby persona non grata. The trio, D'Escoto said, were to leave Nicaragua within 24 hours...
Then on Monday, Nicaraguan officials staged a curious show in Managua. Security Chief Lenin Cerna charged that Pfeifel, Greig and Rodriguez had been trying to assemble "a counterrevolutionary network to carry out attacks on our leaders." A Nicaraguan army lieutenant described how Greig and others, by providing invisible ink and a transmitter camouflaged in an ice chest, had tried to turn him into a traitor...
What drove many fans to fury was the fact that a major defector to Packer was none other than the colorful captain of England's own international team: gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) South African-born Tony Greig, who justified his action by saying that he was fighting "for a principle." The tradition-minded barons of the game did not see it that way; they quickly stripped him of his title. One cricket commentator offered a huffy explanation for Greig's behavior: he was "an Englishman not by birth or upbringing, but only by adoption...