Word: zeno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times, Hafiz shakes his green turban sadly at all the misunderstandings. Some of his converts have tried to help him out. Nervous Archivist Piet van Wijk, 41, made a glowing speech about the beauty of Islamic prayer. Suave, mustached Zeno de Lyon explained that Islam always taught the middle road. "With their system," said Zeno, "one can avoid both communism and capitalism...
...Zeno ("Buddy") King marched across the stage for his diploma last week, a child's voice shrilled: "That's my daddy." The audience at Southern Methodist University's commencement exercises was crawling with children of the Senior Class. Even more would have been there, if measles had not recently struck "Trailerville," S.M.U.'s student trailer camp...
...down and drew his own version (based on that of Disney Cartoonist Kenneth O'Brien). From Bergen's final sketch, RKO Sculptor Joseph Zokoirch modeled Effie in plaster. The final wooden achievement is a full-fashioned ventrilowitch named for Bergen's senior script writer, Zeno Klinker...
...high spots of his professional career came when he started the big game against the Washington Red skins and found himself playing opposite Joe Zeno, the same Joe Zeno whom he had played beside during three years at Holy Cross. Joe, a guard at H. C., was playing that position with the championship-bound Redskins, while Leo had been switched from his old tackle spot to fill a weakness at guard. The two former teammates battled it out all day as if each thought the other was a Boston College man. It looked like a 30 to 30 tie until...
Died. John Whorter ("Professor") Zeno, 87, "grandfather of parachuting"; near Memphis. As a handlebar-mustached young man in a skin-tight costume he thrilled crowds in the '80s by jumping from ascension balloons. "For the first 400 feet there is no movement on the part of the parachute to open," he said in 1898. . . . It is that first drop that looks hazardous and sometimes, when the parachute is faulty, it is, but not otherwise...