Word: hawaiian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...corner, loud. The band, which plays all day long on the cornrt below my friend's apartment, is run by the cotoner of New Orieans, a man named Dr.Frank Minyard who decided one day that being coroner was boring and so called some of his friends, put on a Hawaiian shirt, and went down to the corner of Royal and St.Peter Streets and began to play mediocre jazz, which although he is still coroner, he continues to do almost every nice day, to the unending annoyance of the junkshop owners. Dr.Minyard says he is reviving the spirit of New Orieans...
Seawell has hand-picked replacements for Lindbergh, Trippe and former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who also will not stand for reelection. They are Financier Sol Linowitz; Marietta Tree, a city planner and former chief of the U.S. delegation to the U.N.; and Lowell Dillingham, scion of an old Hawaiian family. Only Dillingham appears cast in the elegant Trippe mold. Though a Boston Peabody, Mrs. Tree is known for her liberal views. Linowitz, a sagacious businessman, is expected to give Seawell tough-minded support...
...capital, Olympia, by July 4, 1976. But most Bicentennial projects in the West are drawn from the region's own history and heritage. Alaskans are rebuilding the Tlingit and Haida tribal houses in Angoon and restoring a log headquarters built in 1793 by Russian fur traders in Kodiak. Hawaiians are constructing a 60-ft., double-hulled sailing canoe in which a crew of 24 will leave on April 1, 1976, for a month-long voyage to Tahiti and back to demonstrate how the Polynesians discovered the Hawaiian Islands...
...frequent mispronunciation of political names over the air. Thone sent a questionnaire to every member of Congress, followed up with phone calls, and in 1971 issued his first pronunciation guide. Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hébert shows up as (A-bear), Wisconsin Representative Henry Reuss as (ROYCE), Hawaiian Spark Matsunaga as (maht-sue-NAH-gah). Unfortunately, not all of Thone's colleagues are satisfied with the directory. Said one Congressman of Ohio's tyrannical Wayne Hays (HAYS), chairman of the House Administration committee: "You pronounce it King...
...what was one of the dreariest campaigns in recent Crimson cross country history, Hawaiian Stein Rafto provided a blaze of sunshine...