Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clay had said that he would "take anything that comes like a man," and he kept his word. Though H. Rap Brown, 23, rabble-rousing leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, attached himself to the former champ during the first day of the trial, Clay refused to lend himself to Black Power demagoguery. And when U.S. Attorney Morton Susman, who both likes and admires Clay, suggested that "the Greatest" was nothing more than a hapless dupe of the Muslims, who had used him for their own political ends, Clay quickly interjected: "If I can say so, sir, my religion...
...three-year prison sentence. The charges stemmed from a libel suit brought against Wirges after his newspaper accused Hawkins' machine of election frauds. During the libel trial, Wirges denied that he had written a certain column; the sheriff's witness swore he had. Hawkins' word, prevailed-at least temporarily...
...Gold Rush days, Alaska's Indians referred to intruders from the U.S. as "cheechakos"-a corruption of the word Chicago. Last week Larry Fanning, 53, a latter-day cheechako who arrived in Alaska nine months ago after an illustrious twelve years in the competitive world of Windy City journalism, became the owner of the state's only morning newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News (circ...
...unexpected that Ecuadorian tennis officials had no funds set aside to send Olvera and Guzman to next month's interzone semifinals in Europe. They immediately began taking up a collection-and U.S. Captain George MacCall contributed $50. For the losers, there was one final humiliation. From London came word that for the first time in memory no American player would be seeded in the men's championships this week at Wimbledon...
Pope Paul last week closed the doors on any hopes that the Roman Catholic Church might soon relax its insistence on celibacy for priests. In a 12,500-word encyclical called Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy), the Pope decreed that the present ban on marriage "should today continue to be firmly linked to the ecclesiastical ministry...