Word: johnson
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Grantland Johnson, national organizer for the NCOBD, said last week the special program "was established because of the intense pressure Davis fell under during the '60s civil rights protest movement...
...time in Lamont Library, which has the second greatest collection of microfilmed colonial newspapers in existence. (The best collection is in Worcester, Mass., but Mullen said he will probably not need to use it. Besides, he added, he has "no ambition to hole up in a Howard Johnson's for a week" in Worcester...
Byrd's friends say he does have strong views but prefers not to impose them directly on his colleagues. That leadership style is well suited to the Senate's new hunger for recognition as an efficient deliberative body. Neither a cajoling arm twister like Lyndon Johnson nor a permissive parent like mild-mannered Mike Mansfield, Byrd is distinguished by his ability to gauge correctly what a majority of the Senate wants. Then he manipulates the rules and cashes in enough old favors to ensure that its will is done...
...houses at one time plus a $30,000 ketch named the Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London got his theories of evolution all mixed up with his notions of Nordic supremacy. The white man, he insisted, could stand the cold better than the Indian could, and in the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight of 1910 he rooted for Jeffries to "wipe the golden smile off the nigger's face...
...when, in the third quarter of that fiasco, Cornell's Dave Johnson retrieved a high snap from center on a punt attempt, found an opening down the left sideline and sloshed 75 yards for the game's lone touchdown, more than just Harvard's talent advantage was wiped out. So was its undefeated season, and so was its pride...