Word: marylands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. LEON DAY, 78, baseball player; in Baltimore, Maryland. Day was a pitching star in the Negro National League in the 1930s and '40s, known for striking out 18 players in a game. A week before his death, Day was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame...
...DOCTOR IN MARYLAND HAS ONE CLIMBING his chimney. Another lurks in the baggage area at the new Denver airport. A fearsome specimen keeps watch over the swimming pool of Court TV's Arthur Miller. A grotesque gaggle stars on its own Disney animated TV series. They're gargoyles--and for reasons no one can quite fathom they've become the hottest commodity to emerge from the Middle Ages since Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn...
Sitting in his home in Bowie, Maryland, Bray had to raise his voice to be heard above the chatter of five of his eight children, who were playing in the next room. "These unborn babies are people worthy of protection," he explains. "There's nothing un-Christian about protecting the lives of the unborn." Although he signed Hill's justifiable homicide petition, Bray says he would never pull the trigger. "Of course," he adds, "if I had the zeal to go out and take some action, I wouldn't tell...
That last, striking statistic has turned into an N.R.A, rallying cry. Thrown on the defensive, Handgun Control has countered that Florida's rate for all violent crime went up 18% during the same period. And last week the University of Maryland released contradictory numbers: it reported three Florida cities as having experienced rises in gun homicides since 1986, ranging from 3% (Miami) to 74% (Jacksonville...
James T. Moore, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, says he has his doubts about the Maryland figures. Yet he also refuses to credit the homicide drop to liberalization. There are too many other variables, from tourism to weather to immigration. (He might well add the 1991 adoption of Brady-type gun-purchase rules, or the fact that many of the homicidal do not bother with gun permits.) "You can't make an informed opinion one way or another," he concludes...