Word: loring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than state solvency that caused the Indianapolis Star to call him "all Hoosier from his head to his toes." His family has been in the state since 1821. He is a walking repository of Hoosier lore, with which he delights audiences. As Branigin expounds early Indiana history, Lieut. Colonel George Rogers Clark comes out a combination of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett; Clark's conquests of Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Cahokia sound only slightly less momentous than Saratoga, Trenton and Yorktown...
...probably the only line anywhere whose chief is just that: its chairman, Chief Abdullah Said Fundikira, 47, is a Cambridge-trained agricultural expert, a onetime Justice Minister of Tanganyika and, according to Wanyamwezi tribal lore, the reincarnation of a centuries-old rainmaker. Despite the chief's lineage, skies could hardly be clearer for him and his airline...
...CODEBREAKERS, by David Kahn. More than 1,000 pages of cryptologic lore, including accounts of how ciphers changed the currents of history...
...nine. "The bands were still playing in 1915," she recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave new world of dashing soldiers, and over the years she has amassed the nation's out standing private collection of lore on military panoply. For both collectors, the fruits of their passion last week rated a salute from the museum world...
...days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone . . . But the steadfast lore of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting...