Search Details

Word: mccleskey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ruling upheld the death sentence given to Warren McCleskey for the 1978 murder of an Atlanta policeman...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: High Court Upholds Capital Punishment | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...McCleskey's hopes to avoid death in the state's electric chair had been pinned on a study by a University of Iowa law professor, David Baldus...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: High Court Upholds Capital Punishment | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...final event of the evening, the USC 800-yd. freestyle relay team of McCleskey, Tyrell, McBreen, and McConica shattered the American and NCAA record with the time of 6:38.63. The splits were 1:40.3, 1:40.1, 1:39.9, and 1:38.3, and that is moving...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Hoosier Swimmers Lead NCAAs; Lone Crimson Entry Fails to Score | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

Stone stood on his rights. The Atomic Energy Commission, he knew, demands nondiscrimination of all of Los Alamos' business concessionaires. With his shop shut down, Manager Darrell McCleskey advertised for barbers throughout the state, interviewed 29 applicants, but could find no barber who would promise to cut heads regardless of color. He offered a compromise: if Inspector Stone would keep away from the shop, McCleskey himself would cut Stone's hair by appointment in a private chair at the Guest Lodge, where he usually gives personal attention to the top administrators, scientists and company officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: The Hairline of Democracy | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Hewitt Mitchell is now married to a former school friend and rearing a baby daughter who traveled some 10,000 mi. during her first three months. Back in Shanghai, flying through the fogs of the Yangtzekiang, and meantime training Pilot McCleskey for the new Shanghai-Chengtu Express, he is looking forward to a vacation and home next summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 |