Word: kirsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forecourt, Finderson will use Bob Peretti, a 6 ft., 3 in. junior, who is hitting for 13.7 a game, and either Jerry Schwartz or Mickey Kirsh. In the backcourt will be two of the following three: Bunky Good, Don McGuillicuddy, or Dave Walker...
...citizens of the tiny (Connecticut-size) Republic of Lebanon saw their first President, old Sheikh Beshara Khalil el Khoury, as a sort of fat and friendly George Washington, nicknamed him "Abu Kirsh" (Father of Belly). He helped to push first the Turks, later the French out of his land, ruled a nation split almost exactly between Christians and Moslems with such a talent for compromise that both sides were happy. Lebanon became one of the most stable and progressive countries in the Middle East. But the "Father of Belly" had one weakness that is fatal to both girls and politicians...
...then had backed him in Kefauver's spectacularly successful Senate race against the Memphis machine of Boss Ed Crump. The plan was not originally Orgill's either. It had had its origin in the mind of an ex-newspaperman, a gentle, dogged and dedicated crusader named Clarence Kirsh-man Streit (rhymes with fight...