Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They continued to give their schools the Surrattsville name, and they kept a close eye on the Surratt house. In 1965 its last private owner donated it to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. A group of local citizens raised money for its restoration, and last week it was formally dedicated as a historical monument. Boy Scouts directed traffic while an honor guard from nearby Andrews Air Force Base presented colors. Said Restoration Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gwynn Jr. to the 700 onlookers, including 30-odd Surratt descendants who attended the affair: "To remove this blot, this blemish...
...purchasing a daughter from a father in one's own tribe. Rape entered the law as a property crime. Brownmiller insists that to this day the law treats rape primarily as a violation of male rights of possession. Today rape is aggression against the female's "owner" as well as a reminder of male dominance...
...cops, but an officer beats him to the homemade grenade he is carrying and also snatches his pistol, a .38 revolver. He is Velez-with his once bushy Afro shaved. The police also arrest another man, wanted in the bank robberies. Four hours later, in Brooklyn, they find Car Owner Hernandez, real name Eco Avila. After Velez, 26, is booked on charges of double homicide, Lieutenant Yuknes says, "We've been home twice since this started." But he can't go home yet. There is a morning press conference. The mayor will show...
...American League the A's are not fretting, no matter whom they play. Oakland has won the last three World Series, and Insatiable Owner Charlie Finley is hungry for a fourth. Reggie Jackson, Gene Tenace and Billy Williams are all regular home-run producers, and Claudell Washington hits consistently. When they reach base, the A's tear around like speed freaks, and Finley has "designated runner" Matt Alexander in reserve. Oakland does not hit for high averages, but the bats boom when it counts...
...moustaches and social registers in their back pockets, respond: "Hear, hear, quite right, D.B." and thump on the table in a hollow variant of old-time prep school enthusiasm. The movie's scene could just as easily have had California regents like Edward Carter, the president and co-owner of a department store chain, gasping with admiration at the words of Reagan, another regent at that meeting...