Word: juliuses
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...exulted Dan Popeo, general counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation. "Judicial restraint is going to be fashionable." Liberals were downcast. The nominations of Rehnquist and Scalia "signal an effort by the President to impose his own narrow ideological views onto the Supreme Court," protested Julius Chambers, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund...
...persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by contrast, Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, 36, pro basketball star and onetime college dropout, proudly accepted both an honorary degree and a hard- earned baccalaureate. Said Dr. J of the latter: "I needed that to fulfill a promise I made to my mother." And at Georgetown University in Washington, Supreme Court Justice Sandra...
...Teller, General Leslie Groves and other walk-ons bear the names of actual people. The author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold and the Rosenbergs with atomic secrets...
...truly unbelievable. Pete Rose, Julius Irving, Wayne Gretzky...the list of magnificent athletes is endless. Weekly, I am presented with the myopic American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...
...Julius Caesar faced as formidable an opponent as Draper (especially after battling a horde of brutal Engineers the previous day), he never would have crossed the Rubicon...