Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ruth H. Bunche...
...behind Voigt, and indeed, perhaps past her if she had not, fouled on her last try, was high-flying Kathy McMillan, 18, of Raeford, N.C. Not since 1968 at Mexico City had the U.S. women won a silver or gold. Saturday afternoon the East German lightning was hurled by Ruth Fuchs, 29, who dramatically speared the hopes of U.S. Champion Kathy Schmidt with an Olympic-record javelin throw of 216 ft. 4 in. Schmidt's best, 209 ft. 10 in., came on her last chance, and won the bronze...
...Hall of Fame centerfielder from the great days of the New York Yankees (1924-35); after a long illness; in Richmond, Ky. Nicknamed "the Kentucky Colonel" because of his prematurely gray hair and gentlemanly ways, Combs was the lead-off hitter who got on base, thereby enabling Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to run up their imposing RBI records. A broken collarbone in 1935 ended his playing career, but he came back to coach his replacement, a new kid from the San Francisco Seals, Joe DiMaggio...
...dawn on Tuesday, Jimmy's sister Ruth Stapleton flew to Atlantic City to promote her book The Gift of Inner Healing. Sales lately have been running at 4,000 copies a week. Ruth signed autographs and chatted with about 200 people who were standing in line at the Christian Booksellers Association convention (see RELIGION). Then she flew back to New York and the intrusion of politics. She received letters addressed "Jimmy's Sister" or "Faith Healer, Plains...
What event could be so important that Jimmy Carter's sister and George Wallace's wife would take a day away from the Democratic National Convention to visit Atlantic City? Answer: the Christian Booksellers Association convention, biggest of the religious-publishing trade shows. While Ruth Carter Stapleton, Cornelia Wallace and other best-selling authors last week met the people who sell their books, moneychangers in some of the 263 booths were offering mawkish, illuminated paintings of Jesus, T shirts that proclaim HE IS RISEN, PRAISE THE LORD paper napkins and LAST JUDGMENT AT HAND bumper stickers. At convention...