Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Governor Hugh Carey has appointed a committee, composed of state health, environmental and transportation officials, to look into mopping up the mess and helping those affected by it to relocate. Carey and Democratic Representative John LaFalce are also seeking federal help...
...remained unsmiling and ill at ease in front of the camera, although he had come to look like the personification of an aging bard. His unruly hair had whitened into a mane, and his face bore lines and wrinkles beyond the mere ravages of time. In "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" (1920) Pound had praised "the obscure reveries of the inward gaze." As these pictures prove, it became his characteristic expression...
...after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
...York, the rhetoric was no less fervid. Republican Perry Duryea, minority leader in the state assembly, is proposing a freeze on local tax rates as he opposes Democratic Governor Hugh Carey's bid for reelection. Duryea also proposes cutting state taxes by $2.2 billion (20%) over four years. Carey, meanwhile, is trying to portray himself as a tightwad and his G.O.P. foes as big spenders. Accepting his nomination last week, Carey denounced "the wretched record of Republican recklessness" and asked: "Who raised taxes eight times in 16 years? They did. And who cut taxes by a billion dollars...
Israel has repeatedly denied that maltreatment or torture is part of its official policy. But members of the diplomatic corps as well as of volunteer groups have witnessed numerous incidents of demonstrators being beaten during arrests. "I know torture happens," says Hugh Harcort, 48, an American professor of cultural studies at Bir Zeit University. "I don't know how you prove it, but if I see one of my students picked up by the Israelis and I see that he is injured when he is released, what am I supposed to think?" Amnesty International has asked Israel...