Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power. When Gene campaigned for a second term, 21-year-old Herman made a rousing maiden political speech at Rebecca, Ga., helped his father carry every county but three. As governor, Gene booted out his motor vehicles commissioner for refusing to cut prices on automobile licenses to $3 on Gene's say-so. When the public-service commission would not lower utility rates, Gene ordered the commissioners to trial before him, found them guilty of using railroad passes, as punishment replaced them with his own men. His most outrageous move came after the state treasurer refused to dole...
They are: Joyce Backman, English; Susan L. Baker, History; Marie DePuis Bardos, English; Alice Cooper, History and Literature; Carol Kirsch Dietz, History and Literature; Joan P. Friendly, Social Relations; Diana Frothingham, Romance Languages and Literatures; Rebecca Garrison, History and Literature; Joy Mambuechen, Romance Languages and Literatures...
...Jenkins' Ear, a name popularly applied to the war between England and Spain, 1739-43. The incident that contributed to its outbreak: Captain Robert Jenkins' English brig Rebecca was plundered by Spaniards, one of whom cut off the captain's ear and handed it back, "bidding him carry it back to His Majesty, King George...
...defects of writing, this book should be set beside Ralph de Toledano's account of the Hiss case, Humphrey Slater's Conspirator, and Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason. It is debatable just how "true" Llewellyn's analysis is. But there is no doubt that Mr. Hamish Gleave points to a serious troubling in Britain's soul. And it again raises the haunting questions which the official report put this way: "First, how Maclean and Burgess remained in the Foreign Service for so long, and second, why they were able to get away...
...make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." The duchess, lamented Ghost Amory, tried to impose worrisome conditions of servitude upon him. He was supposed to prove that 1) B. (for Bessie) Wallis Warfield was born "on the right side of the tracks" in Baltimore, 2) she and the duke are "happy and busy people," 3) Britain's royal family and common folks treated her "very meanly" in disallowing her the title of Her Royal Highness. Said Amory: "I told the duchess I didn't mind omitting facts, but . . . I wouldn't distort them...