Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Douglas McCreary Greenwood will be the magazine's eighth editor. His appointment comes on the heels of the resignation of former editor Dennis Dinan, who charged that the university was censoring him on the publication of sensitive articles...
...those Steeler Super Bowl winners of the '70s did have Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Lynn Swana gathering bunches of touchdowns during their Sunday walks down the football field. But the Steelers also had DEFENSE, as in Mean Joe Green, L.C. Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, Dwight White, Jack Lambert, Jack Ham, Andy Russell, Mel Blount, J.T. Thomas and on and on and on It was defense that filled Steeler fingers with Super Bowl rings...
...almost 8 points could prove prophetic only if voter turnout is high. "The biggest obstacle will be people not going out to the polls," says Clark. His very candidacy proves that race is not the hurdle it used to be in Mississippi. Sums up David Jordan, president of the Greenwood Voter's League: "A good man has emerged who happens to be a black...
...American anthropologist named Greenwood spends several years with the Shan people in Pawlu, a tiny village near the border between China and Burma. He marries and fathers a daughter before news of World War II belatedly reaches him, driving him from his remote adopted home to join the U.S. Army and the larger struggle. In 1949, back in the U.S., he receives a letter from Yang Yulin, a wartime comrade who is now a general in the Chinese Nationalist army. Yang has got hold of an anthropological treasure, the bones of Peking Man. He will flee the advancing Communist troops...
Thus begins an absolutely ripping adventure. Author Stephen Becker, 55, keeps the action fast and the background crammed with details. He meticulously evokes the rhythms of village life, the rituals of a people cut off from the rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a threat to that secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels...