Word: macneill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Braucher Visiting Professor of Law Ian R. Macneil is accused of conveying "sexism" in the classroom by a March letter from the Women's Law Association, his acerbic response circulates throughout the Law School's faculty and students...
...Robert MacNeil...
...this charming memoir, half of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still...
...tamed a wild land. He can still be a hero there if his people choose. But Wright became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. "In power and prestige, the Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn, John McCormack, Carl Albert and Tip O'Neill thought and acted...
...Crimson Captain Dan McConaghy for the bad news first. In the opener, with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and the Eagles ahead, 5-3, the Harvard centerfielder strode to the plate, representing the tying run. He struck out on a Doug MacNeil breaking ball, stranding Pat Sullivan on second base to end the game...