Word: pelle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...successful. Everyone was at least aware, and many were angry. Some protesters slashed tires, dented and even overturned cars. The group from Key Bridge retreated and snarled traffic in Georgetown's side streets with parked cars, overturned mailboxes, trash cans and broken glass. Rhode Island Senator, Claiborne Pell, opened the door of his Georgetown house, stood for a moment in his pajamas inhaling tear gas, and quickly retreated. Another man, neatly dressed in a business suit, stood in his doorway impassively cradling a rifle...
...hope it's not blasphemous for me to say that providence brought me to Rhode Island," Muskie told a group of state leaders before the rally, but it was obvious from the way he courted Providence mayor Joseph Doorley, Gov. Frank Licht, and Sen. Claiborne Pell that Rhode Island's presidential primary early in 1972 had more to do with his being here than any kind of divine intervention...
Doubts about conventional family life have also led to the growth of another phenomenon: the "single-parent family." No longer fearful about complete ostracism from society, many single girls who become pregnant now choose to carry rather than abort their babies and to support them after birth without rushing pell-mell into what might be a disastrous marriage...
Kennan is far from alone. Because of widespread visual illiteracy, most of man-made America is ugly, messy and inchoate. But something may soon be done about the root problem. Next week Senator Claiborne Pell's Education Subcommittee will hold hearings on a bill that would provide $10 million annually for environmental-including visual-education. During the hearings, the committee members (average age: 54) will be asked to pore over a book written expressly for 13-year-olds...
...billed as a state visit to Kenya, but just try keeping the old hunter away from his guns. During the first break in the official proceedings, President Tito of Yugoslavia rushed pell-mell into the wilderness to take a few crack shots at East African wildlife. At the end of his safari, Tito felled a three-ton male rhino, a 21-ton buffalo and a "huge" lion...