Word: shipman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing on the Canadian border, and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh has called for all Indians to arise against the settlers. Trapped by this turmoil is Lettiece Shipman, a freed slave from Kentucky who had hoped to go to Canada. In the meantime, she does laundry and sells sexual favors to Keene in return for booze, which he prudently waters beforehand. Betrothed to Fanny and trying to kick his addiction to liquor, Keene fantasizes about the time when...
DIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 86, sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...
After that outburst all remained quiet until the bottom of the fourth when Navy's Mike Nichols started things off with a single. A Tony DrCesare error allowed Mid-shipman Rick Wilson to reach first, and Tom Baker chipped in an RBI single. After a walk loaded the bases, Tony Rodgers doubled to give the Midshipmen a 3-2 lead...
...want our ideas to make it into the mainstream of power," Shipman said...
...example Shipman gave was Free Enterprise Zone legislation--a package of tax incentives encouraging businesses to set up in economically devastated areas. This concept, which has grown increasingly popular in Congress and in several state legislatures, was first proposed by the Libertarian Party, she said...