Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from satisfied with Carter's energy proposals are the Republican members-Alan Greenspan, who was President Ford's chief economic adviser; Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank and Murray Weidenbaum of St. Louis' Washington University. Their main complaint: the program's failure to put enough emphasis on increasing energy supplies by eventually lifting all controls on oil and gas and letting the market determine prices. Says Sprinkel: "It's backward economics. We're not allocating enough resources for investment." In addition, Greenspan fears that the program will...
...Murray Gellmann and George Zweig, two American physicists, hypothesized separately in 1964 that quarks are matter's most basic building blocks. According to their theories, protons and neutrons which form atoms are composed of triads of even smaller particles known as quarks which carry fractional electrical charges...
...Harlan County cost $300,000 to make and she scrounged it from wherever she could. "When I'd run out of money I'd come back to New York and take whatever job I could, editing, sound, until I got enough to go back," she says. Her uncle is Murray Burnett, who wrote a play called Rick's Place, which later became Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, and earning Burnett the grand sum of $8,000. "Later he wrote a book called Hickory Stick, didn't copyright it, and they made it into Blackboard Jungle. He didn't get a penny...
...forbid, Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie slipped out of the house without saying it Thomas Murray would follow them out onto the sidewalk. Sometimes he would catch up to them when they were already in an automobile, and he would lean through a window. "I believe in one God," he would say, and Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie would...
...THESE PRAYERS didn't help much, for the future refused to pan out the way old Tom Murray planned. To be sure, his children married well, made money, and had lots of children of their own, even by the most fecund Celtic standards. (Al Smith, a fine Irish buddy of the clan whose only flaw was his persistent habit of losing the presidency, would not even swim in the family's well-populated swimming pool: "I might swallow a baby," he explained.) But the legions of fine children did not see things the same way their parents...