Word: adamson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinctly unamused "listeners" were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. The former President's press secretary, Jody Powell, denounced the item as "unfounded and false" and demanded a retraction. So did the Carters' Washington lawyer, Terrence Adamson, who wrote to the Post that the article falsely leveled "a criminal charge" at the former President, and was "libelous." Even if the Post were to apologize, Adamson said, the Carters intended to sue the Post for libel and claim at least $1 million in damages...
...House, including heads of state and the next U.S. President, why did the story not rate full investigative reporting and Page One headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove to win a libel case...
...were in. Herriot went on to prove that despite his obscure locale and inarticulate subjects, the right story teller could make a Yorkshire cow a moveable beast. Today some 2½ million copies of his works are in print, making their author the most unlikely literary superstar since Joy Adamson wrote about a lion who was born free...
...those "Gold Coast denizens" found his professional career in a theater on Holyoke St. Harold Adamson came to the College with no idea that he wanted to be a lyricist until he wrote the book for Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta Club shows. "When I did the first Pudding show we had a professional from New York doing the choreography, and he said I was good enough for Broadway so I went," Adamson says. He went on to write for Ziegfeld shows in New York, and was later voted to the Songwriters' Hall of Fame...
...covered with hooklike thorns, and wave it as a weapon; lions, Kortlandt knew, stay clear of thorns. To test his theory, he journeyed to the Kora National Reserve in Kenya and set large chunks of meat covered with thorn branches near a pride of twelve lions tamed by George Adamson of Born Free fame. The lions approached and batted tentatively at the branches, but refused to rip them away...