Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, as the chances of a House committee investigation grew, Ray began to hint that he had concocted the story about Raoul. Before Richard Sprague, the veteran Philadelphia prosecutor, resigned as counsel to the House Select Committee in a flurry of internecine committee bickering, Sprague interviewed Ray in prison three times. Sprague said they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King...
...stood but 5 ft. 4 in., so they called him "the little priest." He was a shy sort, not much of an orator, and enough the awkward immigrant from Bohemia that some of his colleagues lobbied in vain with Rome to keep him from becoming the bishop of cultured Philadelphia. When he died at 48, the carvers misspelled his name on the tombstone...
Born in 1902 in Philadelphia. Anderson received the Bok Prize in 1940 as an outstanding Philadelphian. She used the $10,000 stipend to set up the Marian Anderson Award, a fund to help young people pursue artistic careers regardless of race or creed...
Sparked by mountain-man Bill Walton, the tournament MVP, the Blazers held leads as big as 17 points in the first half and 12 points with just six minutes left, then held off the furious Philadelphia rally...
...Henry Bibby layup was sandwiched between two Doctor J. jumpers, as Philadelphia quickly reduced the lead to six. Then McGinnis, playing his first strong game of the playoffs, stole the ball from Trailblazer forward Bob Gross and drove the length of the floor for a lay-in. Two minutes...