Word: gunther
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...Gunther Grass: Another squirt Grass turned 52 on Saturday Besides, he wrote a book called The Flounder...
...explosives in the lavatory, blowing a hole about 4 ft. wide in the side of the aircraft. The undaunted posse of passengers and crew members began battering the hijackers while the pilot struggled to gain control of the plummeting aircraft. "There was a lot of blood and screaming," W.J. Gunther of Flemington, N.J., remembered later. "It was like the French Revolution, and everyone was trying...
...that Ely pulled any punches with his scholarship--far from it. Two weeks ago, his office received the 100th published review of Ely's book. Gerald Gunther, a Stanford law professor with no small reputation himself, says of Ely's work. "I can't recall a book in the field that has spurred this many symposia and reviews, he may have set a record for the amount of discussion of theory that has generated." But while most reviewers laud Ely's scholarship, his argument that judges should confine themselves to reviewing only certain, narrow types of laws, has provoked wide...
...delighted to find a dean who doesn't speak out just because he likes to hear the sound of his voice, who doesn't pull punches, professionally or personally. "He's a non-bullshit fellow and non-phoney. That's not the qualifications of the deans I've known," Gunther--who calls his colleague-to-be a "bright light"--says...
Roosevelt was not, most certainly, a saint. Even so admiring an observer as John Gunther, drawing up a catalogue of Roosevelt's many virtues and achievements in Roosevelt in Retrospect, charged him with "dilatoriness, two-sidedness (some critics would say plain dishonesty), pettiness in some personal relationships, a cardinal lack of frankness . . . inability to say No, love of improvisation, garrulousness, amateurism, and what has been called 'cheerful vindictiveness.' " And, as Duke's James Barber bluntly puts it, "he cheated on his wife...