Word: deacons
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Force One had just landed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Saturday night, and the presidential party was en route to a nearby hotel when walkie-talkies in the motorcade crackled to life and the drama began. There was to be a meeting later that night in Deacon's" room. Deacon is the Secret Service code name for President Jimmy Carter...
Kirkland House: This nickname is as obscure as Eliot's, and you've got to go back to the early 19th century to find the key. Anyway, John Kirkland (Harvard President 1810-1828) was a minister. Also, the old Kirkland yearbook was called the Deacon's Notebook. Another word for minister, sort of, is Deacon...
...great lessons of fairy tales is to mind what one wishes for: one may get it. In 1895 a schoolgirl named Gladys Deacon read about the marriage of the reluctant Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough and determined that some day she too would marry well...
...writes that he was "kept out of schools and away from contact with whites until age twelve" to learn the ancient, suppressed ceremonies. But Donald Gurnoe Jr., of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Intertribal Board, says Chunksa Yuha's real name is Lorenzo Blacksmith, the son of an Episcopal deacon, and the National Archives show that Blacksmith attended Bureau of Indian Affairs schools when he was between the ages of five...
...Once Deacon and fellow guard Linda DeRenzo, Dartmouth's other all-Ivy player, caught on, however, the helter-skelter Harvard coverage collapsed...