Word: scots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nine entries figured to have a chance of capturing the coveted trophy and top prize of $64,885 out of the $129,770 total purse. Two of the early favorites were Hoot Speed and Speedy Crown, half-brothers sired by the co-holder of the mile world record, Speedy Scot. Hoot Speed was supposed to have the necessary endurance but was unlucky in his post position. Speedy Crown had already won eight of ten races this year -including two wins over Hoot Speed-but he had been beaten by his half-brother in their last meeting. Their most likely challengers...
...invested the BBC with his own strong sense of dignity by requiring unseen radio announcers to wear dinner jackets while reading the news. Reith resigned as BBC chief in 1938 to head Imperial Airways, which merged with another airline the following year to become BOAC. The dour Scot ran several ministries in the wartime governments of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill...
...Your article strikes a Scot as simply frightening. Why don't you Americans stick to what you do superlatively well? The high-quality superfinish garment, the first-class typewriter, the top computer equipment-all the reliable merchandise that the man in the street in Europe knows he can buy with confidence...
...choice was Clark MacGregor, 48, a moderate G.O.P. Congressman who, at the President's urging, ran for the Senate this fall against Hubert Humphrey and lost. A hearty Minnesotan with Scot-red hair and a gregarious political nature, MacGregor has spent ten years in Congress, thoroughly understands its members and nuances. With a strong civil rights record, he should find a receptive audience among the Republican congressional liberals...
...shameful, cynical politician who discovered how to play skillfully on peoples' emotions for his own gain. But it is much too facile to dismiss the evils and anguish that wracked campuses and country at that time by simply naming him as scapegoat and letting the rest of society off scot-free...