Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edsel Henry's father was a great admirer of the original Henry Ford, but a relative used the name Henry Edsel Ford first, so Ford's father simply reversed the names...
David's mother was taking a tranquilizer during her pregnancy nine years ago. So was Richard's mother, a year later. For both, the drug was prescribed under its British trade name, Distaval, one of the innumerable synonyms for thalidomide.* By whatever name, thalidomide had tragic effects on thousands of the unborn. David was born with neither arms nor legs. Richard has legs but no arms and only a single digit projecting from his right shoulder...
...Wall Street's most secretive and successful adventurers, risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in quixotic, unpredictable enterprises, among them New York magazine. There is a $500,000 chair endowed in his honor at Columbia University, and another-of the wooden, folding variety-bearing his name at New York's Theater for Ideas, an intellectual audience-participation forum, of which he was a founding member. Four years ago, he married a woman less than half his age; he is now the enthusiastic father of a three-year-old daughter and a one-year...
...pretentious albums that you had to listen to 20 times to understand. It got so you couldn't tell anything from this mill of sounds made by these esthetes of rock. Then there came a cry for primitivism, and you started hearing rock 'n' roll-a name that had been unfashionable-as opposed to rock, which had the stigma of art music...
Carew, 23, who came to the U.S. in 1962 from the Panama Canal Zone, made a name for himself on New York City sandlots. A Twins scout came out to see him play in a doubleheader one day, and Carew responded by whacking a single, five doubles and a grand-slam homer. He soon had a Twins contract in his pocket, was called up to the parent club in 1967 after only three years of minor-league ball. Hitting over .300 by midseason, he was the only rookie picked to start on the American League All-Star team. He wound...