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This council is composed of 54 members elected by the General Assembly to three-year terms. It works under the authority of the General Assembly and seeks to promote progress in terms of…Joyce Maynard, 1999 News
45, writer and self-promoter, auctioned off the love letters reclusive author J. D. Salinger wrote her during their 9-month affair that began in 1972, when Maynard was a student at Yale.…Charles Pickering, Sr., 2002 News
trial judge, was denied a promotion to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by the Senate Judiciary Committee in March. Democrats, who hold a majority on the committee,…The Devil's Dictionary: Pastime
by Ambrose Bierce PASTPATIENCEPASTIME -n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.Robert E. Peary
Robert Edwin Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson and four Inuit men were the first to reach the North Pole on 6 April 1909. An officer in the United States Navy, it was Commander Peary's eighth…Jonathan Lebed, 2000 News
15, high-school student, earned at least $250,000 in six months in an online “pump and dump” stock scheme in which he bought thinly traded stocks, promoted them on Internet message boards,…The Devil's Dictionary: Idleness
by Ambrose Bierce IDIOTIGNORAMUSIDLENESS -n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.The Devil's Dictionary: Representative
by Ambrose Bierce REPOSEREPROBATIONREPRESENTATIVE -n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.Bill Frist, 2003 News
politician and physician from Tennessee, became U.S. Senate majority leader in January, after Trent Lott resigned the post amid a furor over racially provocative remarks he made in December…Lady Bird Johnson
Name at birth: Claudia Alta TaylorClaudia Taylor was nicknamed "Lady Bird" as a small child, and she became Lady Bird Johnson when she married Lyndon Johnson in November of 1934. LBJ became a U.S.…Trending
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