Word: gurneys
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Though Gingrich is the first Speaker to be Man of the Year, he is by no means the only one to grace TIME's cover. Our very first issue, dated March 3, 1923, showcased Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, a 23-term Republican who had just announced his retirement. "To Uncle Joe the Speakership was a gift from heaven," TIME declared. "And he followed the divine call with a resolute evangelism that was no mere voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that forbade anybody else to cry out--out of turn." Nearly three-quarters...
Daniel J. Goldhagen, assitant professor of government and social studies; Christopher D. Killip, professor of visual and environmental studies; Derek A. Pearsall, Gurney professor of English literature; John K. Shearman, Adams University professor; Kay K. Shelemay, professor of music; Kenneth A. Shepsle, professor of government; and Sarolta Takacs, assistant professor of the classics, have finished their appointments as well...
...Giving her much painkiller would also increase the risk of coma, so as Dana screamed, a surgeon used surgical saws, scissors and scalpels to remove the leg below the knee. When they were done, they hauled her out with a chest harness and carried her 100 yards on a gurney to a waiting ambulance. Only later did the doctors learn that she had lost her mother and two children in the blast...
...last Wednesday, he was strapped to a gurney in Huntsville state prison, his arms pierced by needles attached to intravenous tubes that would carry a lethal dose of metabolic poison moments later. Jacobs, 44, devoted most of his last earthly words to protesting the injustice of his death. "There is not going to be an execution," he said, his voice wavering and his eyes filled with tears. "This is premeditated murder by the appointed district attorney and the State of Texas. I am not guilty of this crime...
...diary Cheever wrote a prayer: "Oh, to be so much better a man than I happen to be." A requiem might be said over this Evening. What should have been the meeting of true minds -- Cheever's and Gurney's -- is only the conscientious trivializing of a major writer...