Word: sybillants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sybil, Schreiber...
Navy Captain James Bond Stockdale, one of the highest-ranking Navy P.O.W.s, was also coming out with the first group. After he was shot down in 1965, his wife Sybil, mother of their four sons, became a founder and national coordinator of the National League of Families of P.O.W.s/M.I.A.s...
LORD OLIVIER and Dame Sybil Thorndike promised readings from famous speeches from the past. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were scheduled to attend. The occasion this week is a planned "celebration in words and music," in London's Royal Opera House, marking Britain's historic entry into the European Economic Community. The celebration is part of an eleven-day "Fanfare for Europe" planned by the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, at a cost of $825,000. Among its flourishes will be a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall, a "Poets...
...when he mocked them or they reviled him. Nixon may feel the same way, but Disraeli displayed a passion that is generally lacking in American conservatives, including Nixon. It was Disraeli, after all, who coined the phrase "two nations" when he wrote about rich and poor in his novel Sybil. No British government of the 19th century produced more social reform than Disraeli's, which improved the laboring man's working conditions, recognized trade unions, provided health and sanitation services and undertook slum clearance...
When Richard Burton arrived at Wimbledon, he was escorting a young brunette, and Elizabeth Taylor was nowhere in sight. "This," Burton beamed to curious reporters, "is my daughter Kate. I wanted her to see Wimbledon. Elizabeth, unfortunately, is working." Kate, whose mother is the actor's first wife, Sybil, had her own opinion of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. "It's smashing," she said...