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Word: priscilla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporting and research fell to people who brought a high degree of expertise to the task: Bureau Chiefs Roger Stone (Rio), Gavin Scott (Buenos Aires), Mo Garcia (Caracas); Stringers Tomas Loayza (Lima) and Jorge Jurado (Quito); Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin; New York Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger. Obviously expert in his craft, if not necessarily in the area, was the man who took the color photographs, J. Alex Langley, who covered the vast and rugged area by truck, Jeep, horse, helicopter, DC-3, and one sortie in a Grumman Goose piloted by a Franciscan priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 12, 1965 | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House may turn over $2800 to a Miles College volunteer organization for a teaching project in Birmingham schools next summer, Priscilla Ellis '65, a PBH committee chairman, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH May Give $2800 To Aid Miles Project | 12/2/1964 | See Source »

They are: Margaret E. deBeers, of Wolbach Hall and Washington, D.C. (Classics); Susan M. Billings, of Briggs Hall and Olmsted Falls, Ohio (Biology); Diana M. Cohart, of Briggs Halls and New Haven, Conn. (History and Literature); Priscilla Ellis, of Warner House and Cambridge (History); Maria A. Fleming, of Jordan J and Cleveland, Ohio (Romance Languages and Literatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE PBK SELECTS ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS | 11/30/1964 | See Source »

...record of Jamestown has all the theatrical trappings of an achievement to be honored in a national holiday. Like the Pilgrims, the Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: An Affluent Thankgiving | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Supreme Court struck a blow to "save our world-renowned fish chowder from degenerating into an insipid broth." As all seasoned slurpers should know, New England fish chowder is full of dangerous objects-from bones to bits of shell. And when Priscilla Webster swallowed without seining at Boston's Blue Ship Tea Room, she got a bone in her throat that required hospital extraction. Miss Webster sued, won a jury verdict of $1,800. On reversing it, the Supreme Court absolved the restaurant of responsibility for the damage done by "the bone of contention," even though "we sympathize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Of Booze, Broth & Anguish | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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