Word: sullivans
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...switch is the work of California Linguistics Expert Maurice William Sullivan, 40, whose interest in language goes back to his hitch as a marine teaching German to U.S. Navy officers during World War II. Many a degree later (B.A. and M.A. in English at Yale, Ph.D. in linguistics at Madrid, B.A. in Spanish at Puerto Rico, M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury), he took up reading theory at Hollins College and Stanford and then retired to a hilltop in California's Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his books. Distributed by McGraw-Hill, they are now used by 200,000 children...
Vellucci insisted that Maher knew that Sullivan would eventually get the fifth vote. Just before the meeting, however, Vellucci hastily told Maher that he would continue voting for himself, and both men agreed on this...
Sanford Levinson's article, "The Supreme Court: Does It Have an Innovational Role?" is provocative, although, like Frank Sullivan reading Van Wyck Brooks, "I have been rendered cockeyed by the footnotes" (83 of them). Levinson defends the concept of an activist, innovational Supreme Court by attacking the two most distinguished advocates of judicial restraint, Holmes and Frankfurter...
...first ballot for mayor, Walter J. Sullivan had four votes, and Alfred E. Vellucci was voting for himself. Vellucci said last night that he had pledged his vote to Sullivan the night before the deadlocked ballotting was to resume after a week's recess. Vellucci's vote would have given Sullivan a majority, but William G. Maher, who had previously voted for Sullivan, shifted to Hayes...
Maher said last night that he changed because he believed that Sullivan would never amass the necessary majority. Only minutes before Hayes was elected as mayor, Maher said, Vellucci had denied that he would shift from himself to Sullivan...