Word: rex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a torn hamstring muscle in his thigh, he had to finish at least third in one of the dashes to earn a trip to Tokyo. Hayes did even better: he tied the American record (10.1 sec.) for the 100-meter dash. Like Broad Jumper Boston, Ohio's Rex Cawley had an intriguing theory about breaking world records: don't train. Cawley's worked too: he ran the 400-meter hurdles in 49.1 sec. And then there was California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee, who really should have stayed in bed. Chronic gastritis, ruptured pancreas and all, Larrabee tied...
American Samoa is a U.S. territory 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii. Like other offshore outposts, including Guam and the Virgin Islands, it is run by the Interior Department and has a U.S.-appointed Governor- H. Rex Lee, an Iowa-born farm economist. In light of its status, how far does the U.S. Constitution cover American Samoa...
Being largely a monologue, the play naturally depends heavily on its Emperor, the part first made famous by Charles Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson. The work has been a rarity hereabouts. I recall seeing only Rex Ingram's performance at the Brattle Theatre shortly after the War, and Harold Scott's at Agassiz Theatre in the mid-fifties--both admirable...
...difficulties as riots at home and small-scale insurrection abroad. Behind all these devices is the concept of "necessary minimum force," which means no more power than is necessary to disperse rioters without killing them or inflicting wounds that will arouse sympathy. Some samples, as described by Lieut. Colonel Rex Applegate, U.S.A. (ret.), in the military magazine Ordnance...
...good man is hard to find, and intolerable to men and gods once he is found. The age of the anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in his short, cruelly focused first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, laughing con man and indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward...