Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, the numbers of party victories were less troubling than the particular winners and losers. Potentially strong Republicans had captured key governorships: Richard Thornburgh in Pennsylvania, William Clements in Texas, Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. Republican Jim Rhodes remained in control of the Ohio statehouse, and Bill Milliken was re-elected Governor of Michigan. Perhaps most threatening of all, Jim Thompson won re-election in Illinois by 600,000 votes-demonstrating that he is a moderate Republican with broad appeal in a big industrial state. He has not denied that he might run for President in 1980. Said Thompson: "The Republican...
...their 90-minute tilt two weekends ago, and last Friday night Harvard busted out of its scoring doldrums with a 3-0 blanking of Penn. Coach George Ford is likely to continue with a three-man front line led by Diaz and Mauro Keller-Sarmiento and to start Lee Nelson at midfield once again...
Though in the past Rockefeller had often had things in his collection copied, especially china, he did not decide to go into reproductions as a business until 1977. Lee Boltin, a photographer who had taken the pictures for a book on primitive art, the first of a series to be published by Rockefeller, suggested the idea. Some experts urged Rockefeller to start slowly and do some market testing to see what items would sell best. Rocky said no. "We could have sneaked into the market over five years," he says. "But I wanted to do a real cross section, everything...
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm∙Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee∙Short Stories, Irwin Shaw∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever∙The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
...most of those that were. Set in 1946, the story tells of three downtrodden brothers who dream of breaking out of Manhattan's impoverished Hell's Kitchen: a lame World War II vet (Armand Assante), a loudmouthed schemer (Stallone) and a dumb but sweet aspiring wrestler (Lee Canalito). As Alice Kramden of TV's The Honeymooners might put it, what we have here are a gimp, a blimp and a simp...