Search Details

Word: hurd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...events brought a quick response from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party. At the Tories' annual conference in Blackpool, which opened two days after the Tottenham disturbance, Home Secretary Douglas Hurd proposed a law making the commission of a crime while carrying a firearm punishable by life imprisonment. The rioters and looters, Hurd declared, were motivated by "greed and the excitement of violence." In her speech to the delegates, Thatcher concurred, saying, "This is crime masquerading as social protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Under Fire | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...black Daimler attracted a crowd as soon as it pulled up last week near the burned-out hulk of what had been a postal substation in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city. Out of the limousine stepped Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, anxious to show his concern. "I'm just here to listen," Hurd told a crowd of residents of Handsworth, one of Birmingham's poorest neighborhoods. But the crowd was in no mood to talk. Hurd was showered first with jeers, then with rocks, and was hustled to safety by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Looting Spree | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...Henriette, also a painter, Kurd was a World War II combat artist for LIFE. During the 1950's and '60s he painted more than a dozen covers for TIME, the most notable being that of President Lyndon Johnson as 1964's Man of the Year, which Hurd did jointly with his wife. That led to the 1965 commission for Johnson's official portrait, which L.B.J. rejected as "the ugliest thing I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 23, 1984 | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Canada and Thailand are the only countries that have pursued the investigation with as much intensity as the U.S. In a statement to the House of Commons last week, British Minister of State Douglas Hurd declared that his country fully supports the U.S. charges. Said he: "The continued use of [biochemical] weapons calls for a vigorous condemnation by the civilized world and further demonstrates the need for early agreement to ban possession of these weapons." France has led the way in pushing through approval of a new U.N. committee to investigate chemical-warfare incidents. The latest U.S. findings, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Deadly Dose | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

Charles C. Hurd '83 sees teaching AS 11 as "the opportunity to pass on what little I know in my field." Hurd adds that computer science is "an interesting field, but it lends itself easily to a very individualistic career--teaching is one way of breaking out of that...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Who's in Charge Here? | 12/10/1982 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next