Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ekberg family, interceded with the cardinal when Susan insisted on having a priest of her faith at the ceremony, and Father Miller helped work out a ceremony that used prayers from both the Catholic and Episcopal rites. At the wedding the Catholic priest, the Rev. Dom T. Leonard Jackson of St. Louis' Benedictine Priory, read the exhortation from the Roman ritual, blessed the ring, and officiated during the exchange of vows according to the Episcopal rite. Father Miller delivered an invocation, pronounced the couple man and wife, and recited over them the Prayer Book blessing...
...Murray explained it all in her own profane way: "We fled persecution. We fled for our god-damned lives." The persecution, as she put it, began a month ago when a Baltimore anesthetist named Leonard Abramovitz and his wife accused Madalyn of inducing their 17-year-old daughter Susan to give up her Jewish faith and move into the Murray household. A Baltimore court placed the girl in the custody of her aunt and uncle, and forbade the Murrays to have any contact with her. Instead of staying with her relatives, a fortnight ago, Susan upped and married Madalyn...
Self-protection becomes even more complicated in cities that require licenses for firearms. Yet never have New Yorkers, for example, needed protection so desperately. Only last week a 63-year-old lawyer, Leonard Simpson, was shot to death in the self-service elevator of his West Side apartment house. An 84-year-old New York shopkeeper, Frank Felicetti, recently shot and killed an intruder who, he said, had robbed and beaten him twice before. Felicetti was arrested for violating the city's Sullivan Law, which forbids owning unlicensed concealable weapons. He faces a maximum penalty of seven years...
...their 30-minute unpaid lunch break and two twelve-minute paid periods during the eight-hour shift. Now the union wants to shut down the assembly lines for at least 15 minutes during each shift-making a total of 39 minutes' released time. Says U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, who will conduct most of the negotiations with G.M.: "You have coffee breaks on assembly lines all over the world. Only the U.S. has no coffee breaks on the assembly line...
...shiny black Checker limousine skimmed along Vientiane's pitted streets like a water beetle supported by surface tension. There was plenty of tension in the Laotian capital, but the burly, brush-browed man in the car did not show it. U.S. Ambassador Leonard Un ger was at his unflappable best as he coordinated the search for two downed American aviators and pressed the case for fighter escort to accompany continuing U.S. reconnaissance flights over the Plain of Jars. The ambassador stopped by a cocktail party to talk with a rightist leader, then dropped in on Premier Souvanna Phouma...