Word: lowan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusade" that led the way: it was the students who spread the M-day idea. But the original Moratorium concept came in fact from Jerome Grossman, 52, a Massachusetts envelope manufacturer long active in the peace movement. He talked the idea over with Sam Brown Jr., 26, an lowan and former Harvard Divinity School student whom he knew from the McCarthy campaign. Brown persuaded Grossman that the businessman's first idea?a general strike on the traditional European model that would seek to stop the wheels of commerce entirely?was probably too audacious to succeed. Brown's instinct was that...
Liller and "Jamesian Joe" Butwin tied for the MVP award. A special citation for duty above and beyond the call went to Jerry "Bull"Gerst, the corn-fed lowan, for stealing home from first on a pop fly and two errors and scoring the winning run. Gerst suffered multiple lacerations of the knees, but Stillman reports that he will be able to play in next week's rematch...
Eskimo Pie. Russell Stover himself was an lowan who took up candymaking almost as a hobby. In Omaha in 1922, he teamed up with a man named Christian Nelson to concoct a chocolate-covered ice-cream bar that became famous as Eskimo Pie. Stover and Nelson were rich within six months but soon got bogged down in a series of costly patent suits. After a falling out with Nelson, Stover started anew in Denver, began producing "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" with his wife Clara. So popular were his hand-dipped chocolates that Stover opened up five retail outlets...
Ironically, the tearful Marylyn Painter sounded practically lowan. "We love our home," she said. "We've sewed curtains and fixed Mark's room. We're quiet people. We watch TV, baby-sit for friends, play chess. I do play the guitar -that sounds bohemian, I guess...
...second term by the biggest margin (430,479 votes) of any candidate in state history, bringing with him nearly 100 new Democrats, most without previous legislative experience or special loyalties to the Governor. He hoped they would stay in line. "In this hour of unlimited promise," he said, "no lowan can afford to be antibusiness, antilabor, anti-farmer, anti-government or anti-progress." He also meant anti-Hughes...