Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that year, an anonymous donor came up with the million-odd dollars needed to endow the Society. Upon Lowell's death in 1943, it was revealed that he himself was the mysterious underwriter--"It took nearly all I had," he wrote--and the endowment became known as the Anna Parker Lowell Fund, in memory of the late president's wife...
...Many times during the game it got real sloppy at center ice," said Terrier coach Jackie Parker. "Harvard is a little quicker than any team we've played this year and we had a little trouble gauging their speed. In the center ice area, we were turning it over. At times it got very sloppy, but at times it was very controlled...
...recently as last Sunday--that the Terriers have shown signs of revitalization. A 5-3 loss on the road to a Providence College squad nationally ranked in both polls showed that the Terriers (1-1-1 overall this year) are capable of playoff-caliber hockey, a boast coach Jackie Parker hasn't been able to make recently...
...coincidence, two days after the suicide attempt, a federal district court ruled in favor of two Hinckley defense motions. Judge Barrington Parker said that the suspect's Constitutional rights were twice violated by the Government: first, Hinckley just after his arrest, when federal officials continued questioning him even after Hinckley asked for a lawyer, and again in July, when guards seized Hinckley's diaries from his cell. The illegally obtained evidence, Parker ruled, cannot be used to prove Hinckley guilty of the March shooting, the particulars of which the defense has already admitted. But Parker left unclear whether...
...Dorothy Parker, a onetime New Yorker regular, was never at a loss for a good line. When challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence, she instantly replied: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." Insiders at The New Yorker are chuckling again over that gag. The prosperous, sophisticated weekly (circ. 504,000) has, for the first time in its 56-year history, acquired another publication: Horticulture magazine (circ.104,000), a 77-year-old gardening monthly published by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society...