Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weightmen Dick Benka, Charles Ajootian, and Ron Wilson led the Crimson in the field events by placing in two events apiece. Brown was able to pick up only 5 points out of a possible 36 in the weight events...
Charles de Gaulle is extremely thin-skinned about criticism or ridicule from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then...
...from British pockets, the whole tax package is generally intended to dampen demand at home, thus help ease the country's chronic balance of payments deficit. The soak-the-rich character of the investment-income levy has the added political purpose of pleasing left-wing members of Harold Wilson's ruling Labor Party...
After Reggie Smith singled and rookie Joe Lahoud walked, Petrocelli smashed a double off loser Earl Wilson to drive in Boston's first two runs...
Veteran lefty Dick Ellsworth, making his American League debut after coming from Philadelphia in a winter trade, yielded nine hits in going the distance for the Golden Hose. He yielded a lead-off home run to losing pitcher Wilson in the third, but was in control for the rest of the game...