Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KANSAS. The Republican Senate primary was a triumph of sentimentality, a belated vicarious victory for native son Alfred Landon, who lost so spectacularly to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election. Landon's daughter, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, a separated mother of four and former aide to incumbent Senator...
The posters that sprang up across Britain last week showed long lines at an unemployment office and carried a stinging message: LABOUR ISN'T WORKING. The posters drew howls from ruling Labor Party benches in the House of Commons-thereby letting the opposition Conservatives know they had struck a...
So expensive is the creation of an all-new plane that Boeing is looking for partners to help do the work and share the cost. In no other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime...
Many snatches of American vernacular rise out of an implied belief in the mystical properties of names. To say that someone's "name is mud" is figuratively to eradicate the owner. An American speaking of the crux or essence of any pursuit will probably say "That's the...
People in earlier civilizations and some primitive tribes up to modern times did dream-and believe-that personal names held mortal power. In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer tells how the ancient Egyptians and aboriginal Australians alike took pains to protect their secret true names-and the vital power...