Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announces that he will leave his position in two weeks to replace Kingman Brewster as president of Yale, Tosteson, who angered the University of Chicago by departing for Harvard one year after taking a key position at the Windy City school, explains to President Bok: "Rolling stones gather no moss...
...Republicans who picked up Democratic seats included ex-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt over Joseph Montoya in New Mexico, Rancher Malcolm Wallop over Three-Term Veteran Gale McGee in Wyoming, Tax Lawyer Orrin Hatch over Frank Moss in Utah and former Navy Secretary John Chafee over Richard Lorber in Rhode Island. Among the Democrats who gained Republican seats: Tucson Attorney Dennis DeConcmi over Sam Steiger in Arizona, Congressman Spark Matsunaga over former Governor William Quinn in Hawaii, Congressman Paul Sarbanes over Incumbent Glenn Beall in Maryland and Omaha Mayor Edward Zorinsky over John McCollister in Nebraska. Some of the most intriguing races...
Died. Robert V. Moss Jr., 54, president of the 1.8 million-member United Church of Christ since 1969, and a leading advocate of liberal causes; of cancer; in Montclair, N.J. A native North Carolinian, Moss became one of the country's youngest divinity-school presidents when he took over the Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary at the age of 35. He supported full participation by women in the ministry and, though one of his sons was wounded in Viet Nam, amnesty for war resisters...
...matter how far the Old South recedes into shadow and dust, the money seekers will always pull back the Faulknerian mansions and moss to show the glorious past. Y'all smell dem magnolias, honey? Edgar H. de Lesseps Arlington...
...Unfriendly Ten," Director Billy Wilder is often quoted as saying, "only two had any talent; the other eight were just unfriendly." Wilder is wrong--they had talent, but they were not company men in a company town. They felt self-conscious in the industry. Moss Hart, the New York playwright, once told Clifford Odets (not one of the Ten but persecuted later) that Odets's Hollywood experience had persuaded many writers to turn left and go west. "You mean," Odets asked eagerly, "my plays convert them?" "No," Hart said, "your salary...