Word: kent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude of the A.P. might make a silent giant of this country when every other giant and pigmy in the world is broadcasting its own interpretation of American news events and policies." More than one editor complained of being fed up with the pontifical attitudes of A.P.'s Kent Cooper and U.P.'s Hugh Baillie. Even the trade magazine Editor & Publisher, which usually goes along with anything the powerful A.P. or U.P. does, urged them to think it over again...
Whether in London or at Chartwell, his country place in Kent, he stayed in bed until noon. From 11 o'clock on, wrapped in a Chinese dressing gown, he received callers at his bedside. Across his broad belly would be a bed table, on which he rested his rubber-padded elbows; next to his bed, the invariable telephones, cigars, watches, pens and pencils...
...Dentists went on strike in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. They wanted higher health-insurance payments (from $25.50 to $42) for installing false teeth...
...Paul, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, whose flag secretary Stassen had been, described him to a homecoming crowd: "A great naval officer, a great Governor, fit for any job you want to give him." Archconservative columnist Frank R. Kent wrote: "If there is a better Republican available no one has pointed him out." Even Columnist Mark Sullivan, who usually looks with distrust on men with advanced views like Harold Stassen's, praised his "boldness...
...Cross would release him from its Order, thus severing its last connection with the school. Then Father Chalmers will join an Anglican Order, the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, which is dedicated as deeply to poverty, chastity and obedience, but requires that every member devote himself to some job. Kent boys would notice only one change: instead of the white robes of his old Order, Father Chalmers will now don a black cassock...