Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes remaining Dennis Lynch grabbed a rebound off his own backboard and hooked it in to give the Crimson a nine point lead, 49-40. Three points by the Big Green's Wilson Madden, who made seven of eight shots from the floor, and a tap-in by center Sam Barton cut the Crimson lead to four, 49-45. Then Scully went to work...
Lawrence of Arabia. A handsome new comer named Peter O'Toole is the star of this great big beautiful $10,000,000 spectacle-produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of a peculiar young Englishman who became the guerrilla genius of World War 1, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the landscape in which the story was filmed, by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
...years as a youthful county judge, Mills fulfilled the first half of his dream by getting elected to Congress. He was 29. Normally it takes considerable seniority to win a place on the prestigious Ways and Means Committee. But Mills reached the goal in a mere four years. Speaker Sam Rayburn, impressed with Mills's brains and diligence, gave him a push. And the committee's chairman, North Carolina's Robert ("Muley") Doughton, author of the dictum that the objective of tax policy is to "get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose," soon found studious Congressman...
...left a vacuum in effective Senate leadership. In such vacuums, power goes to those who seek it. Kerr sought it and, even though he held no official leadership title, he soon became known as the Senator to see to get things done. He was, said the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, the "kind of man who would charge hell with a bucket of water and think he could put it out." When he first went to the Senate, he was worth about $3,000,000; at the time of his death, his wealth was estimated at $35 to $40 million...
...Louis one evening last week, a tall, commanding-looking Negro in a dark suit and vest walked into the main rotunda of the city's Old Courthouse. For 30 minutes, he stood there and told TV viewers the story of the slave Sam Blow who picked up the nickname Great Scott-pronounced Dred Scott in Sam Blow's Gullah accent-whose suit was tried twice in that courthouse...