Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most peculiar of all disparaging terms, do-gooder. By usage in special contexts, the most improbable words can be infused with extraneous meaning. To speak of the "truly needy" as the Administration habitually does is gradually to plant the notion that the unmodified needy are falsely so. Movie Critic Vincent Canby has noticed that the 'word film has become imbued with a good deal of snootiness that is not to be found in the word movie. Moderate is highly susceptible to coloring in many different ways, always by the fervid partisans of some cause: Adlai Stevenson, once accused...
...trying to kill the President and three others, was sane and responsible for his act. The crime, declared Chief Prosecutor Roger Adelman in his opening statement to the jury of seven women and five men, was "a deliberate, planned, premeditated, indeed a calculated attack." In his presentation, Defense Attorney Vincent Fuller told the jury that "the basic underlying facts of the tragic events are not in dispute." The case for the defense: Hinckley was legally insane at the time of the shootings and could not understand or control his actions. Said Fuller: "The mentally ill, the insane, can calculate...
...pressure from banks and other lenders, to which it owes $4.2 billion, and the company's creditors are widely thought to have played a key role in forcing McCardell out. Says William A. Goldstein, executive vice president and analyst for the Chicago investment brokerage firm of Burton J. Vincent, Chesley & Co.: "Despite their denials, the banks were very instrumental in this ouster. The Harvester board just would not have made such a move without first consulting the banks...
...after working for various architects in Ireland and England, Roche decided to study under Glass-Box Master Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a year, Roche began bumming around the U.S. His not-so-taciturn fellow Irishman, Yale Art Historian Vincent Scully, contends that this was the time when Roche "was bowled over by the bigness and power of American industrial architecture...
Reagan proceeded to a two-hour lunch with Barbados Prime Minister John Michael Geoffrey Manningham ("Tom") Adams and the government leaders of four other island nations: Antigua-Barbuda; Dominica; St. Kitts-Nevis; and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (combined population of all five: roughly...