Word: shawn
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...work in progress that proposed to explore the origins and geological aspects of the sea. The material was rejected by 15 magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic. Eventually the work came into the hands of Edith Oliver at the New Yorker, who recommended it to William Shawn, who recognized its exceptional quality at once. Much of it was serialized as "A Profile of the Sea," and in July 1951 the entire manuscript was published as The Sea Around Us. It won the John Burroughs Medal, then the National Book Award, and within the year sold more than...
...Shawn Kemp led Cleveland with 22 points and 16 rebounds. He was 6-of-21 from the field but made 10 of 13 free throws...
John King grew up among blacks and went to school with them. (The black jury foreman was a classmate at Jasper High School.) King's life took a bad turn after his junior year of high school, when he was arrested for burglary--along with Shawn Berry, one of the two men with him in the pickup last June. The two were sent to boot camp together. Upon release, however, King violated probation and was given an eight-year prison term in July...
...pound weight class, Friedman, who took last year off but wrestled for a NCAA spot in 1996, is seeded fourth. His main opponents include three wrestlers that proved some of his toughest matches earlier this season: Brett Matter of Penn, Ryan Bernholz of Lehigh and Shawn Bradley of Cornell...
...Argument," the second dance on the program and this season' premiere, was the most interesting of all three, because it conveyed the subtle presence of a story line that enabled the dancers to display both their musicality and their talent as actors, In her dance with Shawn Gannon Ruth Davidson (who has danced with the company since its first performance in 1980.)conveyed both a jaded and aggressive quality of movement that was suggestive of a long-married couple...