Word: parlays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Volume II, Means of Ascent, began to run in the New Yorker. The excerpt details a shameless pattern of deceit in L.B.J.'s early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write...
With home games against the three top teams in the Ivy League, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Princeton, the Crimson has the opportunity to parlay home-field advantage into an Ivy League title, but any talk of the 1989 season is mere speculation until a solid replacement for Katsias emerges...
With home games against the three top teams in the Ivy League, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Princeton, the Crimson has the opportunity to parlay home-field advantage into an Ivy League title, but any talk of the 1989 season is mere speculation until a solid replacement for Katsias emerges...
With home games against the three top teams in the Ivy League, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Princeton, the Crimson has the opportunity to parlay home-field advantage into an Ivy League title, but any talk of the 1989 season is mere speculation until a solid replacement for Katsias emerges...
...coup for the U.S. firm. AT&T triumphed over a homegrown bid from Fiat, as well as proposals from French, West German and Swedish competitors. The Italian project will help give AT&T a strong foothold in the fast-growing European telecommunications market. Italtel, for its part, hopes to parlay its new association into expanded phone-equipment exports...