Word: mavericks
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...property at Noddle's Island was granted to Maverick "to enjoy to him and his heirs forever" and, in fact, remained in the family for some time. Apparently the last of the Mavericks to hold the land was the original Samuel's great-grandson, who was killed in the Boston Massacre. The Mavericks then moved gradually southward, eventually to found the famed Maverick clan of Texas...
...yearly consideration of "a fat wether, a fat hog, or 40 shillings in money," the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in its assembly of 1633 granted to Samuel Maverick a plot of land which had come to be known as Noddle's Island...
...Island was a pastoral ground of almost 1,000 acres, in the bay directly east of the new settlement of Boston; it made a worthy estate for one of the American colonies' worthiest citizens. Samuel Maverick was "a young man of means and education in his twenty-second year" when he arrived in Massachusetts three years after the landing of the Mayflower. The son of the Reverend John Maverick of Exeter, England, often called "the godly Mr. Maverick," he had been appointed a royal commissioner for the Massachusetts settlements. As a strict Episcopalian, he often upset the Puritans of Boston...
Presidential elections in Venezuela are almost a year away, but the campaign drums are already beating wildly for one unannounced candidate: Vice Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, 50, a leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Openly supported by the Communists, the darkly handsome Larrazábal ran a close race with President Rómulo Betancourt in the elections that followed, and then was sent into semi-exile as Venezuela's Ambassador to Chile. Last week Larrazábal returned...
...past two years, the growing success of three writers-Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson-has signaled a change. Their achievement represents the fulfilled promise of a handful of serious writers, most of them young and linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, who have persistently gone on trying to probe beneath the surface prosperity to the uneasy past. As artists, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs-those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self...