Word: harold
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...dice inexcusably in its report [June 17] on London's reaction to Osborne's play, A Bond Honoured. Writes TIME: "London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem . . . and held their noses." Of the twelve major newspaper critics, at least four held their breath. Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times said of Osborne: "He is not only our most important dramatist; he is also our chief prophet." According to Ronald Bryden of the Observer, "the effect of A Bond Honoured in performance is marvelously theatrical." Alan Brien of the Sunday Telegraph thought it "a serious...
...What the hell," he notes, "even Harold Stassen had a bigger voice than I did simply because he was a candidate. You have to be a candidate to be heard." He adds: "I'll be any kind of candidate for anything to carry this cause?or I'll be no candidate, if that's the best way to get the Republican Party back into the mainstream of American life...
...signed in 1776 until George Washington was inaugurated as the President of a viable nation. All the same, it was scarcely the kind of talk to rally U.S. opinion behind him. A more practical approach was suggested by a namesake of the President's, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson, who told a group of Oklahoma newsmen that while Americans must naturally be fully informed about setbacks and casualties, they should also be told more about "personal acts of heroism, civic action and construction work" in Viet Nam. Indeed, a single act of heroism like that of Army...
Britain's Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, must have been feeling like a bigger monkey than the melancholy thane. The Oxford University Liberal Club, in which he'd enjoyed honorary membership "for his past and present services to the Liberal Party," decided in its elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked...
There was a pause. The freshmen did not actually know each other very well. By junior year they would probably avert their eyes when they passed on the path. But just at that moment Dr. Harold Martin, who was then the Director of Gen Ed A, walked past the group...