Word: stewart
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...Republican candidate for Governor of New York, acting Attorney General of the U.S. under Calvin Coolidge and an oft-mentioned presidential possibility. When Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum of Stewart Menzies, his counterpart in the British secret service: "Intelligence is the business of gentlemen." Columnist Drew Pearson accurately described Donovan's fledgling OSS as "one of the fanciest groups of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington...
...nullified all 40 death-penalty statutes and the sentences of 629 death-row inmates, declaring that judges and juries had intolerably wide discretion to impose death or not. This lack of standards made the death sentence "freakishly imposed" on "a capriciously selected random handful" of murderers, wrote Justice Potter Stewart. "These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." Within a few years, 37 state legislatures had passed statutes designed especially to meet the court's objections...
...suppose we were lucky to win that game," freshman forward Lori Stewart commented. "The first half was fairly decent, but then we all started playing a really tired game I guess it's a classic case of having exams after Christmas. Cornell seemed like they'd already had theirs...
...that Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith termed "atrocious," the hoopsters played 100 percent, using a defensive play called. "One Hundred. "Led by the defensive play of Co-Captain Frenesa Hall, they stole the ball and converted with quick passing and sharp shooting from center Elaine Holpuch and freshman Lori Stewart, who led Harvard with 14 points...
Horne's teammates followed her lead Stewart grabbed boards with a minute left got fouled, and went to the line to collect. With 45 seconds left, the Crimson was only down by live, 52,47. All Harvard needed was the ball. But B.C held on the Crimson scored three more points, while the Eagles nearly matched its efforts, with two of then own from the line...