Word: len
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure will rise to 2.5 million. Complaints are pouring in from businessmen as well as union chiefs. In its quarterly report released last week, the Confederation of British Industry painted what one business leader called "as gloomy a picture as it is possible for anyone to paint." Says Len Murray, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, which represents Britain's 12 million unionized workers: "The prospects are deteriorating. The resemblances between the 1980s and the 1930s are more and more alarming...
...show his concern, President Jimmy Carter detoured from a fund-raising trip to Texas and Kentucky to fly to the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Len Range, 40 miles north of Dallas. Their sorghum fields have dropped more than 90% and the Ranges may have suffered a crop loss of $100,000. The President said the Government is trying to do everything it can, adding, "We'll be praying for rain and cooler weather in the future...
...many times will Len Barker throw a pitch into the stands...
Terry Wiles was born in 1962, and he was left at the hospital by his un married mother. Eventually a childless couple gave him a home: Len was a truck driver, amateur inventor, and-so it would seem- full-time saint who immediately opened his heart to the boy; his wife Hazel took some persuading. That was accomplished by Terry him self, who, despite his deformities, was beguilingly bright and witty. Always poor, often unemployed, Len nevertheless contrived a series of machines that enabled Terry to achieve some measure of normality...
...Shoulders is the dramatized saga of their triumph and tribulation. Its most winning feature is its lack of self-pity; these people do not cry, and they do not want the tears of others. Bryan Pringle and Judi Dench are more than convincing in the roles of Len and Hazel, but true honors must go to Terry Wiles, who plays himself. He has not acted be fore, but he could give lessons to many who have...