Word: hoving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficulty began three weeks ago, when the new black co-minister of justice and law-and-order, Lawyer Byron Hove, 38, gave an interview. Hove is a colleague of Bishop Abel Muzorewa's, the most influential black member of the council, who had brought him home from London to serve in the new government. Noting that there were few blacks in the higher ranks of the present police force, let alone in the judiciary, Hove declared: "I don't think there is a single African in the upper echelons of my ministry." The reason, he said, was that...
...Hove's comments were both true and reasonable, but they rubbed some whites the wrong way. Hove's white co-minister of justice, Hilary Squires, angrily attacked Hove and was soon joined by the army and police commanders, both white. The council thereupon reprimanded Hove unanimously and, after the police force threatened to strike in protest, fired...
Bartlett supplies a stirring commentary on his 72-hole stint with Hite in the pro tour limelight. "The first day she started great guns. I remember she eagled the ninth for a 36. On the tenth she just crushed her drive." Hite hove her second shot on the par five dogleg out of bounds and ballooned to a 45 on the back nine. "She finished 25th or 30th," Bartlett adds by way of a post mortem...
...pair of "the Rubens, made of sensitized Fablon as used on Apollo space missions." The breastworks are delivered to one Connie Wicksteed, who looks so like a choirboy that the errant local curate has fallen in love with her. Connie lives in the genteel resort town of Hove with her brother Arthur, a G.P. specializing in lechery, his wife Muriel, a lady endowed with Jane Russell proportions, and a cleaning woman who is a victim of overexposure to modern communication: "I'm now going into the lotus position." By the time a salesman arrives to make sure the falsies...
...girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said a still-incredulous Randi: "I kept saying to myself, yeah, sure, you're getting rescued by Ted Kennedy." A small motorboat arrived on the scene and ferried the five hapless boaters to Kennedy's sloop Curragh, where Ted, Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy and several...