Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legs; in Santa Fe Trail and Dark Victory, bigger stars got the girl. In Hellcats of the Navy, he wound up taking a submarine on a suicidal mission; as George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory. So indelibly was Reagan type-cast as the Great Loser that when Movie Magnate Jack Warner, his longtime employer, was first apprised of the actor's ambition to run for Governor of Cali fornia, he protested: "No, Jimmy Stewart for Governor. Ronald Reagan for Best Friend...
...drive for personal involvement may well have sprung from the fact that Reagan's family seldom grazed any place very long. He was born in Tampico, 111., one of many Midwest towns that attracted Ronald's Irish father, John Reagan, a Willy Loman type who may not have been the world's best shoe salesman but held all records at the bar. Reagan's mother, Nelle, of Scots-English blood, was a churchly woman who taught Ronnie and his brother Neil, now 58, to read before they entered the first grade...
...Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, 61. Stepping off a plane in Vancouver, B.C., during a swing of his own through western Canada, Ramsey conceded that Billy may have "won some converts" but insisted that "we don't need his type of evangelism in England." In these perilous times, he continued, England "needs a thoughtful approach to religion, not bursts of emotionalism." Mused Billy, in thoughtful reply: "Interesting, in view of his ecumenical claims...
...believe the public is seriously misled by a tendency to regard crime as a simple phenomenon, rather than distinguishing among offenses by type and degree of seriousness. For example, I suppose most people in this country today assume the danger of their being murdered or raped is increasing all the time. But the reported figures indicate that the rate of these crimes -- while high enough to be a continuing source of worry -- has barely kept pace with the overall population increase, and I believe we can assume that reporting is quite complete on homicides and unambiguous rapes. The dramatic relative...
...story begins with a group of twenty cherub-like English schoolboys listening to a headmaster explain the details of their tontine, a curious type of lottery wherein each of their fathers has contributed one thousand pounds to a fund whose entirety (with interest) will be awarded to whichever of the rosy cheeked lads lives longest...