Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirkland's men's soccer team, paced by goalie Mel Ingalls and offensive wizards Liam Hurley and Tom Sylvester, garnered the crown with a 3-2 double overtime defeat of Lowell...
...Larry Hurley, a union laborer for the MBTA, said yesterday while it's noisy, dirty and "a little hard to take, when it's finished the new station will attract more people and business to the Square...
...more consequence to me was my conversation with Hurley between...
...dialogue of great historic forces is skewed by the spin of the initial conversation-and the dialogue of the American Democracy and Chinese Communism was thus skewed by their first official contact. The spokesman of China was Mao Tse-tung; the spokesman of America was Major General Patrick Hurley. Mao was a genius, Hurley was an ignoramus, and Hurley's arrival in Yenan during that first week in November 1944, to begin American negotiations with Chinese Communists, is a classic instance of the derailment of history by accident...
...Hurley had made his mark as a politician in the Republican convention of 1928 in Houston, where he was one of the floor managers corralling delegates for Herbert Hoover. An Oklahoma corporation lawyer, he got his piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...