Word: changer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walker (arrested in a Dallas men's room in 1976 for public lewdness), and Pat Nixon ("stress-related stroke"). This is simply idle, and a spongy chapter relating the life of New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who was neither an immigrant nor a name changer but is gathered into Morgan's embrace anyway, is not much better...
...invention of the remote control channel-changer for televisions may go down as one of the greatest of all time. It is certainly heaven on earth for those of us who abhor commercials yet are too lazy to make the 10-foot trek to and from the tube itself. But last Sunday afternoon, no matter how often I pushed the clicker, all I saw was boxing. And then a strange thing happened: I began to think...
...efforts, Kissinger's title to replace "Peace Ambassador" might be more exactly "Money Changer...
...thing SCUSA does do is changer a lot of delegates' perception of, West Point. A student from outside nights approach, the military academy with a sound that it is full of programmed robots, mindlessly following orders in the inevitable march to fascism. One finds instead a group of individuals, most of them bright, friendly interesting, committed people. The system might still seem foolish, perhaps even evil, for what it does to the individuality and humanity of the Cadets. It still remains difficult to justify the rule of absolute silence for plebes in the Mess Hall, for example...
Rudel applied for a job at the New York City Opera in 1943, when the company was still being formed, and worked his way up via rehearsal pianist, coach, scene changer and even chorister when the occasion demanded. He was named director...