Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clark Kent may be a champion of the underdog, but this is one David vs. Goliath story that will never appear in the Daily Planet. Back in 1979, student editors at Chicago's Richard J. Daley College decided to change their campus newspaper's name from the ominous sounding The Obstacle to the more light-hearted Daley Planet, after Superman's favorite newspaper. Funny? Certainly not to DC Comics, a division of Warner Communications Inc., which owns the Superman trademark...
Sticking to her story, Williston was well ahead of everyone else with the report that Sadat had died. About ten minutes later, as an increasing number of sources around the world began to relay the same word, it was Tom Brokaw's turn to press Correspondent Art Kent on whether he had heard the news "from an official spokesman, or are we all beginning to repeat each other?" Over at ABC, Frank Reynolds explained: "We are obliged to give you information that may turn out to be inaccurate." At moments, the frustration and uncertainty swamped their syntax. Pointing...
Those were the days of flamboyant personalities--of Sonny Jurgenson and Billy Kilmer, of Larry Brown and Charley Taylor, of coach George "The Future is Now' Allen and owner--and Washington business heavyweight--Jack Kent Cooke. Everyone in Washington knew that the again Jurgenson and the slightly younger Kilmer were embroiled in an unending feud over who was to quarterback, and over who commanded more respect from the veterans on the team. Larry Brown was somewhat of a celebrity--the night he passed the 1,000 yard mark in rushing for the season was more widely known and toasted...
...transfer of power ended more than 300 years of British colonial rule on the North American mainland, dating from 1607, when the first permanent English settlement was founded at Jamestown, Va. On hand for the festivities in Belize were Queen Elizabeth IPs personal emissary, Prince Michael of Kent, who turned over the reins of government to Prime Minister George Price and the new Governor General, Dr. Minita Gordon...
...Updike constructs a poignant comedy of diminished expectations. Some of the laughter arises from the nagging ordinariness of Rabbit's life. His biggest problem is his son Nelson, 23, who comes home with a pregnant fiancee, announces that he does not want to finish his senior year at Kent State and begins angling for a sales job at Springer Motors. Rabbit dislikes Nelson: "I think one of the troubles between me and the kid is every time I had a little, you know, slipup, he was there to see it." Dodging his son as much as he can. Rabbit...