Word: gwynne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second: Peace, good tickle-brain, thinkest thou the brawny lacketh brain? To denote the 50th anniversary of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, good Master Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres, and his most puissant teammate, Master Tony Gwynn, are posing for a prankish publicity poster to help the theater. Sirrah, they are patrons both...
...articulateness, by immodesty, by fighting the stereotype, the bolder women circumvented their destiny. Actress Nell Gwynn moved up from selling oranges in the stalls to take advantage of the warrant of 1660 that allowed Englishwomen for the first time to play themselves onstage. She then advanced herself further by bearing a child to Charles II. This son of the orange wench was created a duke. A whore's life, Fraser is led to conclude, may be misspent without being necessarily wasted...
...Angeles Olympic Committee, which was credited with promoting international brotherhood, was recommended for a Nobel Peace Prize. With costs lowered so far, moreover, many countries, including Britain, Denmark and Sweden, suddenly decided they could participate. "We had to make it attractive for the athletes to come here," recalls Gwynn Wilson, who was associate manager for the Olympic committee. "I would say that without the village, we would not have been successful with our games...