Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ira Rosen of the Cornell Daily Sun topped the voting for the first team for his expose of the coaching and recruiting practices of the Cornell basketball team. Buzzy Bissenger, sports editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, was cited for his coverage of football and hockey...
...when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious, and lay in a coma for a week. Friends knew that he was going to make it only when his aide, Ira Tucker Jr., knelt down next to Wonder's ear, started singing his song Higher Ground ("God is gonna show you higher ground/ He's the only friend you have around"), and Stevie's fingers slowly began moving in time to the music...
...United Methodist Church-one of the mainstream churches that worked most energetically in Key 73-is a case in point. Not only are Methodists once again enthusiastic about evangelism, but they now view it as a joint effort of all Christians, says the Rev. Ira Gallaway, head of evangelism for the denomination. This week, in fact, United Methodists will meet with two conservative Wesleyan denominations and three black Methodist churches in a congress on evangelism in Dallas...
...surprise rescue of Mrs. Kearns, a Times Square regular, was accomplished with the aid of a police device that some zealous civil libertarians call "Big Brother" and that Police Lieut. Ira Berg describes as the "good shepherd tending his sheep." It is a TV eye that relentlessly scans round the clock for any sign of crime. One camera sweeps the Times Square area; two other stationary cameras provide a picture of the south-side of 45th Street west of Broadway, which is a big street for theaters, and a fourth is aimed at Shubert Alley paralleling Broadway...
...Irish Republican Army in the November 30 issue degenerated into a runny first person--"If Seamus killed the soldier, I thought, I would have no choice but to grab the rifle and shoot the other three," writes Richard Boyle, who then fails to explain either factionalism within the IRA or the great number of White Papers and Amendments and Laws to which he constantly refers. The reader learns almost nothing of Northern Ireland, or the intricacies of Irish politics. All he does learn is something about Richard Boyle...