Word: mckinleyism
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...portions of his book read like a crime supplement to the Rivers of America series, which set out to celebrate the belief that America was still the Beautiful. Boyle follows the river down from its source at Mount Marcy (where the great conservationist Theodore Roosevelt received the news of McKinley's death by assassination) and finds its enemies innumerable. Thrifty upriver towns happily send their raw sewage roiling southward toward foul and wicked Manhattan. Tankers leak oil. Corporations discharge incalculable quantities of industrial waste. They always seem able to find a tame scientist to testify before civic bodies that...
...M.I.T.'s only hopes had rested with seniors Manny Weiss and Bob McKinley at the top two positions on the ladder, and both of them lost in three set-matches. McKinley, who had lost to Harvard's Bill Washauer in the quarterfinals of last year's New England championsips, lost to him again. 6-0, 5-7, 6-2. at number one, and Weiss, the captain. dropped a 6-8, 6-0, 8-6 contest to Crimson junior Chris Nielsen, after rallying from a 4-1 deficit to take the first...
...McKinley and Weiss, who had been defeated by Washauer and Nielsen at the New Englands last Spring, salvaged a 6-3 victory in yesterday's second set at first doubles and staved even at 3-3 in the third set when the match was called...
...gamut of human emotion. From the melancholy love ballads so beloved in American popular music, Blue Grass stretches to deal with love from home and family; the life of the soil: the chronicling of great events in ballad form (e.g., "White House Blues," a song about the death of McKinley); the perils of such diverse occupations as truck driving, horse racing, railroading, mining, soldiering, and crime of all types; loneliness; the joy and humor of living and the pathos that goes along with it. The range of expression in Bill Monroe's songs and music is a reflection...
Dartmouth's Justin Stanley, a junior, is the one Gonzalez must beat. Stanley lost a thriller to Williams' Jack McBroom early this season after several comebacks, and then beat M. I. T.'s Bob McKinley in five extremely close games to even his record at 1-1 McKinley downed Gonzalez Monday...