Word: victor
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...Hello Harvard... thank you for waiting, I'll connect you... what's the first name, please... spell the name, sir...ah-four nine fah-eevc, seven eight oh one... that's V as in Victor... would that be off-campus or on... surely, I'll ring for you... I'm sorry, only three numbers at a time... surely, is that undergraduate, staff, or faculty...
...South Tyrone constituency, proved to be a winner in an important by-election last week. At stake was the British Parliament seat vacant since the death of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalists who have starved themselves to death in the Maze Prison near Belfast. The victor was Owen Carron, 28, Sands' former campaign manager, whose triumph over Protestant Kenneth Maginnis by 31,278 to 29,048 votes boosted the spirits of the Roman Catholic minority that wants independence from Britain...
Champagne corks were popping merrily in the Oval Office late Wednesday afternoon when the call came from the vanquished to the victor. "Well, Mr. President, you're tough," said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "You beat us." Indeed he had, and with surprising ease. In the final legislative battle over Ronald Reagan's economic program, 48 House Democrats had deserted their party to help the President win a 238-to-195 victory on a vote for a bill that provides the largest tax cut in U.S. history. The same...
...This was cause for mourning in a city where decision makers depend on a full and vigorous airing of important public issues. "An extremely sad day," said President Ronald Reagan. Added House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We ought to have newspapers expressing opposite philosophies." Even the victor in this journalistic struggle did not celebrate. "The demise of the Star," said Post Publisher Donald Graham, "is dreadful for Washington and for anyone who loves newspapers...
...list: Orson Welles, an epic creator who is known to the television generation as the butt of Johnny Carson's fat jokes; William Conrad, TV's Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono reached 400 Ibs. before a recent diet took him down to 350. He played Bette Davis' father in Hush, Hush'. . . Sweet Charlotte when he was 25 and Davis was 55. Now 43, Buono longs for varied roles but tells himself, "In a business...