Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign appeared equally quiescent. As New Mexico's moderate Governor David Cargo put it: "Reagan's rapidly replacing Dick Nixon in one wing of the party." The Californian's growing popularity was glaringly evident earlier in the week, when 13 Western Governors-eleven of them Republicans-met in the village of West Yellowstone, Mont., just across the Wyoming border from Old Faithful. Fresh from an enthusiastic reception from the conservative Young Republicans in Omaha, Reagan breezed into the Yellowstone meeting "like a man on a white charger," as McCall put it. "He's the hottest piece...
...that day, Harvard, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, Buildings Services Employees International, and attorneys for a small group of B&G workers met with the Massachusetts Labor Conciliation and Arbitration Board to discuss their problems...
...point, representatives from the Herald-Traveler Corp. and the Globe Publishing Co. actually met, but the discussions never got very far. The general idea was that each company should eliminate one of it's sets of editions. Neither company, however, was willing to give up its morning paper...
...will get a studiedly smirking grimace and--depending on his sensibilities--either some variation on "not quite the calibre" or a hasty disclaimer like "Well, I didn't actually see too much of the summer school people." "It's funny," one Cliffie said typically, "but everyone I met in my courses was Harvard or Radcliffe...
Joan of Arc was put to death on a pile of burning fagots. Gilles de Rais, the French nobleman who fought at her side at Orléans, met a somewhat different end. He turned out to be a fagot who dismembered and burned a pile of little boys-800 of them, by the best estimates of the time. In its outlines, this historical novel is undoubtedly Sade-but-true. More debatable is the book's claim that Marshal de Rais was not entirely a monster, but "the magnified and distorted image of everyman." Everyman? De Rais, whose atrocities...