Word: sullivans
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Councillor Walter J. Sullivan's motion to strike the second half of the order was passed eight to one, and the Council then approved the amended order...
...fact that even Homer described all this in a flatter manner hardly disturbs Arrowsmith's co-editors, who include D. S. Carne-Ross, 40, onetime BBC editor, and John Sullivan, 32, a transplanted Oxford don who recently won a $1,000 prize as the best teacher at Texas. They view translation as reseeing and refeeling of structure and meaning. Carne-Ross argues: "The translator's job is to get inside the text, to work his way through the words and relive the informing experience which lies behind them." Poet Logue has done just that for The Iliad, says...
According to Walker Sullivan of the New York Times, the idea of he forthcoming explosion, we read, came from two physicists at the University of Minnesota back in 1958. They proposed that a hydrogen bomb be exploded inside the Van Allen radiation. "This would contort the earth's magnetic field and dump particles it had. The particles would plunge into the atmosphere, producing spectacular auroral displays." "It might be amusing," they wrote," to end the international Geophysical year by destroying some of the radiation field first discovered during the I.G.Y...
Never again can history be the privileged property of historians. It has been invaded in force by straying journalists who are ready and anxious to assess it long before the scholars. Journalists Mark Sullivan and Frederick Lewis Allen wrote lively and snappy accounts of contemporary history. But of all the journalists who have attempted history none has made more of a name at it than John Gunther, 61, whose seven Inside books have been bestsellers around the world. "My grand design," writes Gunther in this brief but entertaining autobiography, "is to do a political guide to the whole known world...
...sphinx-faced Columnist and TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 59-recovering at St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn., from an operation that parted him from an inflamed gall bladder; Bestselling Novelist (Ship of Fools) Katherine Anne Porter, 72, who tripped down a dark flight of stairs in her Washington, D.C., home while calling for a kitten, cracking six ribs; and broad-toothed Comedian Joe E. Brown, 70, in Pittsburgh, Pa., melted by 90° heat while playing the Allegheny County Fair...