Word: solely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paid off $2,000,000 (including a settlement on an $85,000 bill from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Bobby was killed); Democratic Party resources will take care of most of the rest. Though Ethel will never be less than a wealthy woman, the burdens of being sole head of a large family have nicked into her personal fortune as well. "Ethel spends pretty freely," says a friend, "but now she's going to have to watch it." Accordingly, she has quietly disposed of some family stock, sold a few paintings and trimmed the payroll at Hickory Hill...
...friends as Spanish fly, he helped finance a small scholarship fund for Mexican students at the University of California. During the Pueblo crisis, when Governor Ronald Reagan was urging a 24-hour ultimatum to the North Koreans, Newhall offered to finance the deployment of a battleship -on the sole condition that the Governor be in the landing party...
...never any other life for the Texan. He was an exercise boy at ten, a full-fledged jockey at 14, a trainer at 20. He handled more than 1,900 winners, among them Derby Champions Bold Venture (1936), Assault (1946), and Middleground (1950), but always refused to take sole credit. "Luck plays the most important role," he once said, "not the trainer...
Founded in 1952 by Amalia Hernandez, a former dancer who remains its director and sole choreographer, the Folklorico fills the stage and the eye with the splendor of a national heritage that is a blend of Indian and Spanish elements. The company's lavish costumes, liberally splashed with gold and feathered beyond a peacock's fondest hopes, would stun the senses even if they were worn by mannequins. The 90 traveling members of the troupe-dancers, singers and instrumentalists-are considerably more than that...
...original plea of guilty means that his sole recourse to obtain a new trial is through a writ of habeas corpus. He told the judge that he would soon be filing such a petition. "I understand this man's a pretty fair jailhouse lawyer," Battle noted. Ray may also receive professional help. Last week he wrote to his previous defender, Arthur J. Hanes. Then Lawyer J. B. Stoner of Savannah, Ga., a lifelong anti-Negro and anti-Semitic agitator, announced that he would represent Ray in several libel suits...