Word: sams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Then, too, there is the Food Research and Action Center, whose troops tramped up to the Hill to protest the proposed food-stamp cuts. FRAC, employing 25 lawyers, technicians and persuaders, gets two-thirds of its million-dollar budget from the Federal Government it is now attacking. Uncle Sam is once again caught beating himself over the head...
...senior buyer for FAO Schwarz, the Manhattan toy emporium, "the world's most asked-for plaything." It can also be an obsession, an infuriation and an invitation to insomnia, distracting workers from their jobs, students from their theses, even lovers from love. Scholars compare it to Sam Loyd's puzzle, an 1873 American invention that was said to have driven 1,500 people to insanity...
Thomas Pauken. The nominee to head ACTION, the agency that oversees VISTA and the Peace Corps, Pauken, 37, is a Dallas lawyer described as being as far to the political right as Carter's director, Sam Brown, was to the left. Says Pauken: "Some liberals might not like me." What is most significant is that Pauken is a former Army intelligence officer. The Peace Corps has sometimes been suspected by Third World nations of being a front for U.S. intelligence agencies. So sensitive is the Corps that it turns down volunteers who have previously been associated with such agencies...
...Jolla, Calif., braving an avalanche of affection that was greater than ever. The reason: Governors of 15 states had declared March 2 Dr. Seuss Day. Indiana's Robert Orr went so far as to dine on green eggs and ham-favorite feast of Seuss's Sam-I-Am. Shudders Geisel: "If all the Governors take to eating green eggs and ham, I am sort of fearful about the future of this country...
...Adolph Rupp couldn't have handled the Cats better, getting some five minutes out of Sam Bowie with four fouls, and when Bowie finally fouled out, sending Mel Turpin in to do the job. It chokes you up to see how street-smart and worldly-wise the guy is. They say he coached a truly perfect game when Kentucky knocked LSU off just before the tournament...