Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made the headlines. One of them is Mining Consultant Anthony Field, a golfing partner and a close confidant of Wilson's. The other is Field's sister, Marcia Williams, the Prime Minister's longtime private secretary. Her behind-the-scenes influence is something of a political legend in Britain. A story once circulated among Members of Parliament that a visitor to No. 10 Downing Street had been told, "Mrs. Williams is busy, but you can see the Prime Minister if you wish...
Ruth wanted a chance at managing, but most owners felt that he could hardly control himself, much less an entire team. Ruth died in the summer of 1948 from a throat cancer that had plagued him for many years, but the legend of the most liked, one of the wildest and very likely the best baseball player of all time, is still very much present decades later...
...wasn't until he challenged a legend, and the biggest legend in all of sports before people began to realize just how good Henry Aaron really...
...there are many people who will never acknowledge the greatness of Hank Aaron, because, to them, it will lessen the legend of the Babe. After all, they did not even really hear about soft-spoken slugger for Atlanta until he hit his 700th homer last summer and it became apparent that barring misfortune, he was a cinch to break the record...
...HADEO'S LEGEND SUGGESTS possible inadequacy in Rubin's idea of Vietnam as a whole, too. He carefully draws parallels between the two sides in the conflict: the legendary barking deer of the title, for instance, was torn apart by an eagle and a tiger; and in two scenes that frame Rubin's main story, a North Vietnamese and an American colonel seek reassurance against overly callous commanding officers from photographs of their countries' faraway presidents. But Rubin's own account undercuts the parallelism--it's hard to imagine anyone saying of Lyndon Johnson, as he says...