Word: braddock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here today to get the whole community to join hands to protect the children," Father James Braddock of the Commission for Justice and Peace said. Corcoran said the rally was held downtown "because it is a citywide problem...
...Braddock said the School Committee met last June about safety and nothing was done. "Things haven't improved," he added...
...Louis, 63, captured the heavyweight crown in 1937 by knocking out James J. Braddock, then successfully defended his title 25 times, scoring 21 K.O.s. Although Louis made nearly $5 million, ill-advised business ventures, a costly divorce and his penchant for high living led to a financial squeeze. By 1956 he owed $1.25 million in taxes, In 1970 Louis was briefly committed to a psychiatric hospital by his family. The ex-champ eventually went to work as an official greeter for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Last November Louis had open-heart surgery in Houston, where he is still recuperating...
...cinematic heresy to say so, but some things really should be heard-or heard about-and not seen. Take those creatures out there in the jungle in The Island of Dr. Moreau. To Braddock (Michael York), a shipwrecked sailor, they are at first shadowy, ominous presences, cracking twigs underfoot and growling in the gloom. What could they be? What, for that matter, are the mysterious experiments that the overlord of the island, Dr. Moreau (Burt Lancaster), is conducting in his compound? And why do all of Moreau's servants seem-well, barely human...
...headed an unsuccessful militia effort, skirmishing with the French near the Ohio River, and he then spent three years patrolling the western frontiers against marauding Indians. In 1755, at the disastrous battle before Fort Duquesne, he served as an aide to the ill-fated General Edward Braddock. Washington had two horses shot from under him (and four bullet holes shot into his hat and coat) while trying to rally the men. He was cool in action, a comrade recalls, "like a bishop at his prayers...