Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleshes out his narrative with excursions into Egyptian and Ethiopian culture, discourses on religion, military tactics, natural history, and love. His form and mode of thought had a great effect on men of the Renaissance: Tasso and Cervantes borrowed from him; many of the Elizabethans−particularly Sir Philip Sidney in The Arcadia−mined his work. The conventions he pioneered of a noble hero and heroine, accompanied by friends who are more comic and far more human, still survive in books, movies and TV serials...
...Sidney Albert, 50, the fast-talking financial juggler who took over ill-starred Bellanca Corp. less than three years ago, quit as president in the midst of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the company's financial reports. Trading his family's rubber-machinery business for control of Bellanca. Albert went on a stock-swapping spree that turned the small aircraft partsmaker into a grab bag of 70 firms, and helped push its stock from $4.37 a share to $30.50 a share within a few months (TIME. June 25, 1956). The stock plummeted last year...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 27--Governor Faubus acted out of desperation to create an emotional issue for his political gain, Sidney S. McMath, former two-term governor of Arkansas, said tonight...
Reaching outside politics, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker last week picked an unexpected recruit as Canada's new Secretary of State for External Affairs. His choice: Sidney Earle Smith, 60, president of the University of Toronto. A portly, affable man with silvering hair, a booming conversational voice and a politician's knack for remembering names, Dr. Smith had never held a political office, but he is better known across Canada than many of his Cabinet colleagues...
...runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge fired to drag...