He is given first place in the last Grand Review in Washington. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cal had finished their big ten, they had not appreciably narrowed Washington’s small lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Clayton said, “We could go to Washington Square Park. They play the blues down there.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Carriage accidents were serious in wartime Washington and could prove deadly. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s funeral was held in Washington on Wednesday, April 19. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bliss’s actions also troubled the group of Washington doctors who had attended Garfield since the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The caller told him to alert the FBI in Washington. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I could pick out General Washington astride his big gray horse at the center of the line. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if I was right, Baltimore and Washington were too far away to do Auntie Braxton’s cats any good. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington’s days as a volunteer at her church did more for Lambert’s children than most people will ever know. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Washington learned from some of his agents operating in New York that “some secret expedition is in contemplation, the success of which depends altogether on its being kept a secret.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard Barker and his recruits returned to Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The truth was that Washington confused me, with its decorous traditions and sober self-regard, its whiteness and maleness, its ladies having lunch off to one side. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Washington gathered vital intelligence about the way the French were turning some tribes against the English and punishing Indians who would not aid the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later and thousands of miles away, at CIA headquarters in Washington, DC, experts pored over the letters and debated their authenticity. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tourism goes back a long way on Mount Washington. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’d rearranged her entire life in order to work for Washington and then lost him almost immediately. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There had been thirteen black students on the Highland Gardens bus the day Claudette was arrested, most of them her classmates at Booker T. Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The beat went to thirty-seven, and Washington simply got up and walked away from the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His older brother was a soldier with General Washington in Pennsylvania. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gardenia’s brother-in-law was in town from Washington, D.C., and they’d all just finished having lunch. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Obeying his mother, George Washington gives up his hope of joining the Royal Navy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we dispose of Washington, Parliament will do whatever we ask.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the photo of the Washingtons on Brandon’s desk. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Washington, Rochambeau, and Lafayette all met in Williamsburg on September 14. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhattan. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Later that day, on the other side of First Street, the Supreme Court announced a 6–3 ruling in favor of the New York Times and the Washington Post. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Down the five miles Washington traveled, through forests and past scattered farmhouses and fields, over the small bridge covering Pegg Run, until he entered the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Although Lincoln does not know this, 120 miles south of Washington, at the important railroad and communications center of Petersburg, Virginia, a siege that started in June 1864 is nearing its end. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

George Washington, I had just learned, was the Father of our country. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He then traveled to Philadelphia to ask George Washington to support his efforts. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, we had a private tour of the White House and posed on the steps of the Supreme Court with Mr. Thurgood Marshall. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day was a Sunday, and as he had every weekend for weeks, Joe took Joyce and drove over to the lot on Lake Washington where his father was building his new house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In Washington, Civil Defense Minister Fiorello La Guardia looped around the city in a police car, sirens blaring, shouting the word “Calm!” into a loudspeaker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That struggle, known in America as the French and Indian War, began in 1754, after Washington ambushed a small French force. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Washington, the bits of intelligence he got from agents were like pieces of a puzzle. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both towns were about as pleasant and peaceful as anything back home in Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In a strange twist, many newspapers mocked Lincoln for the way he eluded the assassins by wearing a cheap disguise as he snuck into Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like Washington, he saw Jay’s Treaty as a shrewd if bittersweet bargain designed to postpone war with England for perhaps a generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They might think I was acting like Booker T. Washington; let them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t been signing Washington Irving’s name to any letters,” said the chaplain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Did he really love Siobhan Washington, and did she love him back? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Washington knew that his men in Whitemarsh would be overwhelmed if the British sent troops from both New York and Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. I had four, but two were killed, one is a prisoner, and I’m going to the other, who is very sick in a Washington hospital.’ he answered quietly.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men immediately boarded a special train to Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only two months after Sputnik, the US Navy ordered the construction of the USS George Washington, the world's first nuclear-armed submarine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adams said that Washington had “the gift of taciturnity,” meaning he had an instinct for the eloquent silence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On July 21, in the Culper Ring’s quickest agent-to-spymaster delivery, the intelligence gathered by Townsend reached Washington at Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson River, about 20 miles north of New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the groups, the Women’s Refugee Commission, invited me to a summit in Washington, DC, in honor of International Women's Day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He created citywide plans for Cleveland, San Francisco, and Manila and led the turn-of-the-century effort to resuscitate and expand L’Enfant’s vision of Washington, D.C. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Washington went immediately to Dinwiddie, who gave him one day to turn in a full report. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Washington Irving did grow monotonous, he could reverse the order and sign Irving Washington until that grew monotonous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hunter handed Washington a sample of his ability to swipe intelligence material—a letter that was supposed to go to the commanding officer of British forces in Canada. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whereas most other historically black schools were scattered like forts in the great wilderness of the old Confederacy, Howard was in Washington, D.C.— Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post called the campaign “savage and senseless.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Washington told Gist what the governor wanted, Gist agreed to guide Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We came when we heard that President Washington was returning. Lucille said that would be the sign that your Grandfather was waiting for. Where is the Captain? I didn’t see him when we came in.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am glad to find you, sir. I have a telegram here for you all the way from Washington. That’s District of Columbia, sir. Not state of.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I spent a good chunk of that August toiling in a rented conference room at a hotel in Washington, D.C., having been dispatched to help prepare a case. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Coach Washington wore a dark suit and skinny tie. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mary Lincoln has joined her husband at City Point, bringing with her a small group of guests from Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

No one thought it was worth forwarding to the FBI in Washington. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Many people, Thomas Jefferson and future president James Madison included, felt that Washington could not legally convene Congress anywhere but within the city limits of Philadelphia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Little countries no one ever heard of have their Washington lobbies, representing their special interests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t New York. It was Washington, DC,” another girl told them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Anderson had been singing in Washington ever since her high school days, appearing first at black churches and small black-operated theaters, and later before larger, racially mixed audiences in the auditoriums of black high schools. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Glancing at the “puddles” Washington’s blades left behind in the water, Saxton was shocked at the distance between them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I asked if I could see Muslim activities in some other cities, he arranged with other ministers for me to attend meetings at temples in Detroit, Washington, and Philadelphia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Lincoln Memorial in Washington can trace its heritage to the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Washington had spent his young manhood fighting with the British to expel the French from North America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Terrible winds and thunderstorms had swept through Washington early that morning, dissolving the dirt streets into a sticky muck of soil and garbage. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny, who had been relatively calm, was now on a rampage because Henry refused to drive him down to Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit of World War I biplanes at the Smithsonian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was sent with a team to collect specimens of big-game animals for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

So I drove as far as Gig Harbor, Washington, abandoned the car, and inveigled a ride on a northbound salmon seiner. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington’s case, the most obvious corollary to his view of American national interest was the avoidance of a major war during the gestative phase of national development. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The largest and most devastating riots of all, however, took place in Washington, DC; Chicago, Illinois; and Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The jobs would start in Washington, DC, on January 1, 1921. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He visited a man he'd met in Michigan many years before, an electrician who had since moved to Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In February of 1796, Washington had first approached Alexander Hamilton about drafting some kind of valedictory statement. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Washington, he wrote, “it was a bad time, too early for clarity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Commander-in-chief George Washington is a soldier in public and a spymaster in secret. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got off the bus near Washington Square, a flat stretch of grass that sat in front of an old church. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Friends in Washington who will be stationed in Colombia have been looking for someone who can teach their children some Spanish. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

After returning to the United States, he served as a city councillor in Washington, D.C., where his uncompromising positions made him many friends and numerous adversaries. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Officials on the bridge dropped a white flag to signify a win for the white blades of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington, in fact, was the only crew that would be made up entirely of under-graduates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, Washington was seventh in a field of seven—almost five lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had been invited to Washington, D.C., for a celebratory dinner at the White House later that evening. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Herold is a former pharmacy clerk who was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That man who was just in here. He was talking about Washington Irving.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At a mile and a half, Washington was out in front by open water and stretching its lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He dropped toward the Washington Monument and set me on the grass. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And for that, the cyclotron at Washington University in St. Louis, which Compton had built before moving to the University of Chicago, would do. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They must have been staying there, working late, perhaps getting some last-minute things done before the people from Washington came, when the bombing began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

More people fled every day, including the wives of General Washington and Colonel Knox and Brigadier Greene, her that folks said was such a big flirt. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Write a story that includes a new pair of loafers, the Washington Monument, and a spork. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The girlfriend was one of the best spies the British had, but fortunately for Washington, when her report reached Clinton, he did not believe it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post article quoted him saying, “The worst thing you can do to a sick person is close the door and forget about him.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"I got it from Moira, my friend at the Washington Post. You remember her?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On Easter Sunday morning, April 9, accompanied by her mother and sisters, Marian rode the train from Philadelphia to Washington’s Union Station. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There was a little window with a view of Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“There seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm suddenly pervading the scene,” Alvarez recalled, “and we were worried about . . . whether it was a change in climate in Washington.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Anticipating a huge turnout, the National Park Service had enlisted the help of some five hundred Washington police officers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Washington was the core of gravity that prevented the American Revolution from flying off into random orbits, the stable center around which the revolutionary energies formed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I remember when we got back from Washington, D.C., The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The action opened in Watertown, which was painted upon old linens; General Washington stomped out from the wings, his jacket ill-fitting and crude. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

California had won its heat in 6:07.8; Washington had taken 10 full seconds longer, 6:17.8, to cover the same distance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cora and Caesar were almost to town when he said, “Meg works for one of those Washington Street families. One of those big houses you see?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The next year, 1924, Washington returned, with a young Al Ulbrickson rowing at stroke, and won the varsity race again, decisively this time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For decades afterward, Washington crewmembers were feted at the end of each rowing year with a Loyal Shoudy banquet, where each found a purple tie waiting at his plate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He'd grown up on a farm in Kentucky and ended up in Washington, D.C., after finishing law school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My dad has to go to Washington to work, or we wouldn’t have enough money ...” “Money is not the problem;” “Sure it’s the problem.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many citizens felt Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality was a betrayal of the French people. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was, Washington complained, “a delicate situation for the President to be placed in.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“He turned it into this whole performance. Ms. Washington ate it up.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I definitely did not call you ‘that,’ George Washington.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of Washington’s Olympian status, the infant American republic had managed to avoid a contested presidential election prior to 1796. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The National Transportation Safety Board, the US agency responsible for investigating plane crashes, is headquartered in a squat, seventies-era office building on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Madam commanded that a supper be thrown to celebrate the capture of Fort Washington, complete with turtle soup. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a rebel army might be advancing on Washington at that moment! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was enough moon for them to find their way into the casde, and he could tell her about his day in Washington. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In retrospect, Fenn told me, “One of George Washington’s most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of ’78.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever seen any of these ?” Major Major looked with a blank expression at copies of personal correspondence from the hospital on which the censoring officer had written “Washington Irving” or “Irving Washington.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We ended up moving to Washington right after our traditional Christmas holiday in Hawaii so that Sasha and Malia could start school just as their new classmates were coming back from winter break. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In February, a senior diplomat in the US embassy in Moscow named George Kennan sent a sobering message about the Soviet Union to his superiors in Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be away on the tour; in case you need to get hold of me, write to my Washington address. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every stroke Washington took in the last mile widened the distance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“To most people it’s names. Dead people. But I always picture just eyes, eyes, eyes. I can’t go to Washington and face that Wall. I can’t have sixty thousand pairs of eyes staring at me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Washington was a voluble politician with an exuberant spirit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Washington School Board decided to reverse itself. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“This man has a celebrity in a certain way,” Washington remarked concerning Bache, “for his calumnies are to be exceeded only by his impudence, and both stand unrivaled.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington State said that the treaty did not mean what the Indians claimed, and in any case that circumstances had changed too much for it still to be binding. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The finish line, on the other hand, ran straight across the water, just about intersecting the bridge on the California side of the racecourse but intersecting the Washington side several yards short of the bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We reached the Washington Square Arch and stopped. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The rezident of the Soviet embassy in Washington approached Victor Cherkashin, a veteran KGB officer and spy handler, as soon as Cherkashin stepped out of his car in the compound's secure parking lot. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could see Grover Clark’s backside in front of him, but he continued to hold Washington steady at thirty strokes per minute. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington walked into her bedroom and pulled back the curtain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cal had dropped its rate to thirty-two and then thirty-one after the big ten, but at twenty-nine the Washington boat continued to inch ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Parker also left directions to correct some of the items he had manipulated for the purposes of the letter, such as the photo of Leanne Washington. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In Washington, Shadrach Yale was slowly struggling back to health in the safety of his aunt’s home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry—those tennis courts...they were dedicated to Coach Washington?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Khrushchev toured Washington, visited a farm in Iowa, and even watched a movie being filmed in Hollywood. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As much fun as doing the show was, Fred wasn’t a big fan of the music in Washington! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“We lost twenty satyrs against some giants at Fort Washington,” he said, his voice trembling. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The British could have captured most of the American army, including General Washington! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Charles said, “How did he get away with it? How in hell did he get away with it? Nobody ever questioned it. Did you? Did I? Did my mother? Nobody did. Not even in Washington.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1910, Washington became the first state to pass suffrage legislation in fourteen years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ms. Washington crosses her hands over her chest and starts to pace, taking deliberate steps. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Matt,” he said in a low voice, “if you will let her go to him, I’ll take her to Washington and see that she is safe.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1904, Bigheart sent a zealous young lawyer named John Palmer across the country “to keep his finger on the Washington pulse.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was to have gone to Europe with the marching band that spring, and she'd apparently loved her visit to Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the advance work of Sackett and his woman agent, Washington already had a spy network set up in Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since leaving the traffic on the George Washington Bridge they had sped up; now they were headed straight west, fast. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon landing in Washington, Oliphant called on Briggs, only to learn in dismay that “this inarticulate and unimpressive man had put the reports in his safe” without even showing them to his own committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The first-place teams from across the state go to Washington, D.C., for the nationals. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In a Washington courtroom a week later, G. Gordon Liddy stood with his arms folded, his face impassive, as the clerk read the jury’s verdict: guilty on eight counts related to the Watergate break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As the teachers passed the George Washington Carver houses, a housing project for poor black families, people came out of their homes to encourage them. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington, who presided over the court, found Hickey guilty and ordered him hanged as “a warning to every soldier in the Army.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how Washington learned that the British were about to speedily depart. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ebright had made some lineup changes since his boys’ loss on Lake Washington, and the new outfit had turned in outstanding time trials on the estuary. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mother was frying hamburgers on the stove when she said to Daddy, “States do have rights, you know Those politicians in Washington can’t be telling us how to run our schools.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other Washington boy who showed up at Grand Coulee that summer was Chuck Day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And winter in Washington, D.C., could be awful. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next day classmates swarmed around her when she pulled up to Booker T. Washington High School in her cousin’s car. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Praying Mother Washington had not come in until all of the saints were on their knees, and now she stood, the terrible, old, black woman, above his Aunt Florence, helping her to pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even fewer wanted to know about the Washingtons. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Which Mr. and Mrs. Hupfer used to take him to Washington, D.C., because they were so proud of him. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Somehow it was the one thing in all Washington that Leslie had never seen, and so he could tell her about it, describing the tiny beasts hurding to destruction. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Royal Brougham was shouting, “Come on, Washington! Come on!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In Washington’s words, a strong attack by Howe “might prove the ruin of our cause.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington had been made a major in February 1753, an amazingly high rank for a man who was not quite 21 years old. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After quietly retrieving it, they unrolled the yarn, removed the agent messages hidden inside, and took them to Washington’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six crews were competing for the right to go to Berlin: Washington, California, Penn, Navy, Princeton, and the New York Athletic Club. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I asked the moment I walked out the gate at Reagan Washington National Airport, my hair still in fuzzy summer braids, skin browned by the southern sun. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

An enormous cyclonic windstorm—a storm that made the previous fall’s windstorm look almost like a spring breeze— slammed into Washington State. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I interviewed the first forensics expert in the Dan Rather National Guard story, and he was then specifically picked up by The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Globe, NYT, etc., within forty-eight hours. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

They strengthened throughout the night, literally dampening the spirits of the mob, putting an end to the Washington Riots of 1919. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Tonight Mom leaves for Washington, tomorrow I have dance practice, and the day after that—building time. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She stopped at the corner of Washington Avenue and St. John’s Place to take in the changing scenery. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

George Washington High School was the first real school I attended. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington would hold New York only for a short time. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kissinger was still shuttling between Paris and Washington to maintain his sex appeal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The deliberate way Washington rowed that race had seemed partly a challenge, partly a dare, but mostly it had seemed a warning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You need to be on Washington Street,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Many of them were in Washington, DC, to attend a convention of the National Woman’s Party, but they wanted to show their support for suffrage by marching with the picketers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He told Rebecca he was going to build a national memorial engraved with the names of all the American casualties of the war right in the center of Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly in December the waiting was over, and the Army of the Tennessee was again in contact with Washington. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But protesters rejoiced in a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church, a celebration tempered by the realization that they would have to keep walking at least until the city’s appeal reached Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For just this reason, as they struggled to regain their form the Washington freshmen came up with a mantra that their coxswain, George Morry, chanted as they rowed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then that September I picked up The Washington Post and saw that the PG County police had killed again. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

With the bad blood that had lately arisen between the Washington and California crew programs, Cal’s two gold medals had been bitter pills to swallow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, less than two weeks before we were scheduled to go, two planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York City and another one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Before the summer is over, twenty-six riots take place, most notably in Chicago; Washington, DC; and Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was buried at the university, which was renamed Washington and Lee University, in his honor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the Aurora, Benjamin Franklin Bache reprinted the old charge that Washington had been a traitor who conspired with the English government during the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As he continued east on F, he approached two of Washington’s greatest landmarks: to the left, the huge marble Patent Office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1976 Edward N. Luttwak, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., published a short, provocative book about imperial Rome that distinguished between territorial and hegemonic empires. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later someone else called out, much more urgently, “Look at Washington! Look at Washington! Here comes Washington!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington, like any good spymaster, wanted morsels of information from more than one source. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early that month he is called to Washington, where he is offered command of the Army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys strained and heaved and gasped for breath, but for all their efforts they moved Old Nero only slowly and erratically out of the Cut and onto the ruffled expanse of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She learned who Enoch Washington was, and how he was driven from the city. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Marveling at Ann’s vast knowledge of federal housing laws, a HUD consultant admitted that “she knows more than most bureaucrats in Washington.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Washington’s siege would last for nearly a year. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Joe James,” she said, and explained that James was a young Indian logger and fisherman who lived in the forest near Bellingham, Washington. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late on Easter morning, George Atzerodt showed up at the home of Hezekiah Metz, about twenty-two miles from Washington, in Montgomery County, Maryland, north of Charles County where Booth and Herold were. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the press car, a hush had gradually fallen over the Washington contingent of writers and coaches as they had taken in just how far behind the Husky Clipper was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even C. C. Spaulding, heir to Booker T. Washington, could feel the tremors coursing beneath placid Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Merle had received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and been ensconced for two years at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Swann’s former haunt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Several members of Washington’s staff, including Hamilton, pleaded that Andre’s life be spared because of his exceptional character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I saw Antonio once again, years later, in Washington, D.C., but he seemed out of place there, all dressed up in city clothes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like we’ve found a filovirus in a bunch of monkeys outside Washington. We’ve recovered what we think is Ebola.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Fred and Cha-Cha, the second audition winner, rode with Jenny and Abby to an apartment in Brooklyn that the Washington! producers had rented for their canine cast. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, He did say it,” said Praying Mother Washington, “and I’m so glad He told us He wouldn’t leave us comfortless.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was that class trip to Washington, D.C., where things really fell apart. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Washington could slow down Howe, but his ragged army had little chance of keeping the British from sending troops from New York to occupy Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fell to me to fly to Washington, D.C., to address the United States Department of the Interior Committee on National Historic Landmarks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone of any import, from Jesus to George Washington, was white. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In just one day I will be in Washington, D.C., on national television. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Things were not going so well at Washington Irving Junior High School. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, he returned to Washington for two more weeks of briefings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He suggested to Garfield that his wife would have a speedier recovery in the cool sea breezes of New Jersey away from the stifling heat and humidity of Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jesus walking on Galilee and Washington not telling lies. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, no one knew how Washington the spymaster had aided Washington the general. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all there, save young Ella Mae, who had departed while John was still on the floor—she had a bad cold, said Praying Mother Washington, and needed to have her rest. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It wanted to take over Riverbank’s entire Department of Ciphers and move it to Washington, DC. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just as Washington himself had to put the whole intelligence and counterintelligence picture together from bits of information, so must we. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of all their outdoor exposure, Washington’s boys were, year after year, particularly hardy and particularly adept at rowing in rough water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With two hundred meters to go, California edged ahead of Washington by inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So tell me about the new kid, Russ Washington.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington Park racetrack sat on a verdant strip of land along the city’s southwestern edge, within walking distance of both the Fair’s Midway Plaisance and the University of Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“One of the conspirators flapped his mouth and the story poured out. Hickey, his name is, a tall Irishman who served in General Washington’s Life Guards.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There may be more demanding and exciting summits to reach along the Appalachian Trail than Mount Washington but none can be more startling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“With Washington gone, the revolution will collapse,” predicted the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on the overnight layover, I naturally went sightseeing in downtown Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A military biohazard operation was about to go down in a suburb of Washington, and he sure as hell didn’t want the Post to find out about it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he and Jason drove for half an hour in the direction of Washington and picked up Jaime at her gym. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to hell with this Booker T. Washington business. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voters, especially liberal and black voters, viewed Washington as a kind of golden savior, a symbol, the man who could change everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The officer at the outpost sent the “suspicious papers” to Washington—who never received them—and sent Anderson, under guard, to Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington was in lane three, right next to the Syracuse Orange in lane two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As I was describing Washington, they had the look of envy in their eyes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The business community and a good number of alumni very much wanted to see the young Beck stroking the Washington varsity now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The contents of the saddlebags were then returned—along with documents that had been created by Washington’s men but that looked like real British documents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my last name is Washington, they put me in the section with George and Martha. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Washington lowers her hands and reaches into her back pocket. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Though I was already home, I kept on moving east—to downtown Washington, D.C., right next to my office. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was dug in for the duration and wasn’t going to leave until he knew what was in the only telegram he’d ever delivered from Washington. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

By 1970 five states had made abortion entirely legal and broadly available: New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Alger Hiss was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, the nation's most prestigious research institute. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smith framed the view from the marble statue of George Washington on the lawn to the top of the dome, crowned by a statue of Freedom. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the exact tune George Washington whistled when he crossed the Delaware on that icy night in 1777.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every few days snow flurries descended on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Please join us in two weeks when we televise the finals from Washington. This is Charles Kingsley, good night.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Washington Post. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who fought this war between America and the Soviet Union maneuvered in secret, often alone, working in the shadows of Berlin, Moscow, and Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You were right to tell me, Gerald,” Mr. Washington assured him with a sigh. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Washington wanted not a shred of doubt to remain that his decision to step aside was wholly voluntary. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon the Washington boys were compelled to choke down first a glass of a chalky-tasting pink calcium solution, then a glass of Knox Sparkling Gelatine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington, D.C., and Chicago both instituted handgun bans well before crime began to fall across the country in the 1990s, and yet those two cities were laggards, not leaders, in the national reduction in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And with that, Washington won the race but lost Tom Bolles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If Washington wanted to go to Berlin, the boys were going to have to pay their own way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, according to a witness, Washington left the room and, “giving way to an uncontrollable burst of feeling,” wept. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to offer myself as escort to your mother. Mr. Laurence has commissions for me in Washington, and it will give me real satisfaction to be of service to her there.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they did not kill him on the spot at Mudd’s farm, then they would escort their captured prey back to Washington for a hanging. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1789, just as George Washington was sworn into office in the newly founded United States, the French Revolution began. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Oh, and dark black women are also for cleaning up Washington and getting out of Iraq and whatnot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Would you be willing to accept a position in Washington, DC? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were old houses that had been standing there when Washington maneuvered his troops across Long Island. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought everyone in the world had come to Washington, that we were celebrating the end of all the protests. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

On May 6, Eisenhower and his advisers doubled down on their cover story, as reporters in Washington began asking questions about Khrushchev's accusations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Washington sliced across the finish line four and a half lengths ahead of California, and almost twenty seconds ahead of the freshman course record, despite the headwind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington knew where most of the work would be done: New York City, headquarters of the British Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constitution Hall, completed in 1929, was the largest and finest auditorium in Washington, D.C. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Torn between his incompatible loyalties to Lawrence and to Strauss, Alvarez finally opted to serve the latter, and booked a seat on the red-eye flight to Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But Washington's district attorney, George Corkhill, wasn't ready to take the case before the grand jury. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They walked up to Rob’s driveway just as the Washingtons were pulling in. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere among them, he told the boys, was the greatest crew that Washington had ever seen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

George Morry, Washington’s coxswain, raised his right arm momentarily and then dropped it to signal that his boat was ready. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington was an indisputable American patriarch, but more an actor than a leader, brilliant at striking poses “in a strain of Shakespearean...excellence at dramatic exhibitions.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Two years before, only twenty miles away, General Washington had beaten the Hessians there. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Dimming, do the alternates go to Washington also?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once again both boats beat the previous course record, but Washington beat it by a good deal more, coming in at 15:56.4, a commanding 37 seconds ahead of the mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington pointed in one direction, Du Bois in another. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This sent a clear message to lawmakers and future politicians and reestablished a feeling that seemed to have been lost when Harold Washington died: The African American vote mattered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A cheerful affirmative letter wishing me a pleasant journey came by return post from Washington. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He sent a telegram to order Grant back to Washington at once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After leaving Tokyo and the Washington Post, I had moved back to Seattle to work on this book. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then, on a rainy June evening in 1923, Washington’s varsity crew returned to Poughkeepsie under their new head coach, Russell “Rusty” Callow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A young Washington doctor had a different idea about the bullet's location. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even Praying Mother Washington had ceased to moan. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“How do I know? I told you he might have speculated. Somebody might have put him onto a good thing there in Washington.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

To find out what was in the letter, Washington called in James Lovell and two other amateur codebreakers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington and Rochambeau rapidly changed their plan: They would head south to Virginia with the goal of trapping Cornwallis’s troops gathering at Yorktown, near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an architect and had done his work pretty well in Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Manila, and many other cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two were traders friendly with the Indians Washington wanted to meet and question. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With William at the wheel, they headed for downtown Washington again so that Elizebeth could pick up a briefcase from her assistant. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A few Tories, though, were determined to strike a blow for the king—by killing or kidnapping George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, high up on a cliff face, were the sixty-foot-tall faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, carved right into the rock, staring somberly down on us. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

From across the river, he saw a beautiful scene: a looming moon, high over Washington, with the great dome glowing in the moonlight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington planners are trying to be helpful in this, and there are new programs for the centralized organization of science all over the place, especially in the biomedical field. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in March 1881, Charles Guiteau departed New York, leaving unpaid bills behind as he usually did, and headed to Washington to claim his new job. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But if he’s so bad, why does Mrs. Brown hang his picture in our classroom next to George Washington?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s trolling for government funds took place against the backdrop of a fierce battle in Washington over legislation to bring atomic energy under civilian control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“From the Washington Post. She’d like to speak to you after you catch your breath.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Considering how often we all see Ms. Washington get theatrical like this, it’s pretty lame that we still have trouble controlling ourselves. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Today the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the most visited memorial in Washington, DC, attracting three million visitors every year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ever since his childhood on his father’s Virginia farm, Washington had spent most of his days outdoors. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, two unexpected phone calls were placed, one from England, the other from Washington, D.C. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The irony is I have a fear of heights, which prevented me from flying to Washington, D.C., and New York with the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inch by inch the other two boats began to gain on Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The man told McWhorter that he had arrived from Germany two days ago and was going to see Mr. Hoover, the director of the FBI, in person in Washington, DC. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Washington also got information from agents he ran himself. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself plunging over the roads of Washington, as dedicated to the sea as any migrating lemming. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d thought American history would be easy because Dad had taught us about the Founding Fathers—I knew all about Washington, Jefferson, Madison. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His endorsement of the New Deal was sought after and given, providing black Americans with new influence in Washington. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge was connected to Washington and to his own agents—but the agents were not connected directly to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first five decades of his life, there was nothing remarkable about Washington Duke. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Washington’s white press made the situation much worse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The luxury underground fortress remained operational and ready to receive its political guests until a 1992 expose by Washington Post reporter Ted Gup blew the operation’s cover. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Washington State Law Enforcement Tip Hotline,” a voice blared in my ear. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It crossed the Potomac River into central Washington. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’m standing by the door to Ms. Washington's room, looking down the long hallway toward the cafeteria. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

By 5:00 Wednesday evening, the funeral train arrived in Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the boys in the Washington boat found their swing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You can take the five o’clock into Washington and catch a six twenty-two out of there.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The weather in Washington, DC, can be erratic, especially in winter. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At Washington’s Union Station black and white passengers were separated. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Washington was not a man who let failure get in his way. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did Lee plan to let Richmond fall and in its stead to seize Washington—wouldn’t the exchange of capitals be worth his while? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teapot did not end the debate in Washington over the country’s two duplicative bomb labs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She chose a basement room located under a real estate firm on F Street in a well-traveled part of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then they turned south again, following a dirt road through open woods and into a marshy area fringing Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Representative Henry Barnhart of Indiana was carried in on a stretcher from a Washington, DC, hospital after an appendectomy; he stayed just long enough to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In a fierce battle during the French and Indian War, four bullets riddle Washington’s uniform—but do not strike his body. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when Oppenheimer arrived in Washington with the letter, Stimson was absent—a man of seventy-seven trying to recover his strength at an Adirondacks resort after the superhuman exertions of the summer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My judgment about Washington being perfect was wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing with those white children anyway, James Washington?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t understand why Ms. G wanted us to go to Washington so badly. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Washington sympathized with whites who recoiled at “the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not long before Henrietta’s first exam, TeLinde presented his argument about carcinoma in situ to a major meeting of pathologists in Washington, D.C., and the audience heckled him off the stage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson, a former stroke oar—one of the best Washington had ever known—was tall, well built, and notably handsome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With the financial backing of Durham’s white leaders, Shepard founded North Carolina College, a school based on Washington’s theories of self-improvement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Franklin checked with Washington’s counterintelligence expert John Jay, but Jay did not know anything about Bonvouloir. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they looked at him suspiciously, he said that he had to meet with the warship’s captain because of “particular business from Washington.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer recalled the earliest advice half-jokingly offered by a newspaper editor when the residency question had first appeared on the national agenda: Give the decision to George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than George III allegedly observed, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ebright had his second consecutive IRA title, revenge for his loss on Lake Washington, and validation for the conclusion that the Associated Press writer had come to back in April. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sensing the unpopularity of the pact, Washington attempted to keep its terms secret until the Senate had voted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the work on Hardtack proceeded in the South Pacific, progress on a test ban started to be made in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In 1864, Mary Surratt, under a cloud of suspicion over her husband’s loyalty to the Union, had moved her family to her Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and rented the tavern to John Lloyd. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was safer in a B-29 bomber over Japan during the war in an air raid, than the people of Washington are walking to the White House neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote angrily to Pocock about it: “He heard that you said the shell you hoped Washington would use was a great deal better than the one you made California this year.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We are following in their footsteps by traveling from California to Washington D.C., announcing to everyone that we are strong and we will be heard. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Washington, for the second time in two years, now stood again on the brink of sweeping the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred thousand people had turned out to view the annual contest between California and Washington, crowding along the shores of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a trainer in Washington, D.C., who was good, who was very good, legendary, and who specialized in flyweight fighters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Washington had yet to show they could win a two-thousand-meter sprint. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Ebright, reacting to rumors his father had heard, had come to suspect that Pocock was sending him second-rate or defective equipment in order to hobble Washington’s principal rival. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had earned a master’s degree in applied sciences, and he taught physics and chemistry during the weekdays at the all-black George Washington Carver High School in North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Already six people had died on Washington’s slopes in 1996, with the year barely half over—quite a sobering statistic—and there was plenty of room on the board for more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We must get to Washington. Isn’t there another flight— perhaps on another airline?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After her trips to Washington, they would meet secretly at newsreel theaters in Manhattan. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The river would protect Booth from the angry citizens of Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington spent the day at home in a small, stuffy office seeing visitors, writing letters, and worrying. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

After discovering that none of them matched the date, she restarted the tribute video of Coach Washington. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Washington boats were the only ones there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One morning there was a letter to be sent to a Washington cabinet officer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Washington and his men were holed up in Morristown. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have returned to their original position, half facing Madison Avenue and half facing Washington Street. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You could even be,” he added, “Washington Irving, couldn’t you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the bridge, the Washington fans were adamant, pointing angrily at the water, gesticulating. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll even fly from Washington to meet at a convenient time in Berkeley,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I got a piece here that I cut out of a newspaper. The editor put it just right. He gives Washington a good going-over for not siding with France.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could get down with his electric guitar in Washington Square Park and make the crowd holler for more. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Once, for instance, Washington requested “hard money,” meaning gold or silver, “to pay a certain set of People who are of particular use to us.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of a Nicaraguan diplomat, he set Good Boys in a world he knew well: a posh suburb of Washington, D.C., and an elite high school he called St. Joseph’s Preparatory School for Boys. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the boys from Washington were having a hard time sleeping. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Major Major went back to Washington Irving when John Milton grew monotonous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Anderson faced the now hushed and expectant crowd that stretched across the Mall from the base of the Lincoln Memorial all the way to the Washington Monument. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“The clue says Coach Washington idolized a team in a sport other than tennis.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their pets—a dog named Franz, a cat named George Washington, and a house rabbit named Paganini—sprawled on the carpet, taking afternoon naps in a strip of sunlight. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This was precisely the neutral foreign policy that both Washington and Adams had been urging for a decade and that Jefferson had condemned as a betrayal of the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On one occasion, after watching the Washington freshmen practice, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Royal Brougham marveled at the relentlessness of the sport: “Nobody ever took time out in a boat race,” he noted. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning, November 10, George Washington mounted his horse and rode out of Germantown without bothering to wake his aides. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Their opportunity had been developing since Memorial Day, when Senator Henry Jackson of Washington called at Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Washington was making his ultimate statement as America’s first and last benevolent monarch. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Richard Nixon sat in bed with breakfast on a tray, scanning the Washington Post and New York Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A single Confederate agent, nearly penniless, had just frustrated the frantic pursuit by thousands of men being directed from Washington by Secretary of War Stanton. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over several cross-country flights, Ellsberg carried portions of the Pentagon Papers from Washington to Los Angeles in his briefcase. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Relay race by Culper spy ring delivers “news of the greatest consequence” from Townsend to Roe to Woodhull to Brewster to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also did a quick check of the local history shelf before they left, hoping to find something about the Washingtons or the Allens, but she didn’t see any books related to them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, We decided to have a concert in order to raise money for our Washington, D.C., trip. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time the fall semester began, Helen had found a new, larger place, in Washington Heights. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d row it all the way down the Corsica River to Pioneer Point, where the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., has a summer place. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It took Mr. Daley the rest of recess to calm them down and to convince them that there were no pit vipers in Washington State—or anywhere in the United States. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had worked as a dietician in Washington after she was married. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The Lord’s done give you,” said Praying Mother Washington, “a mighty blessing—and what the Lord gives, can’t no man take away.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But then a new secretary of state came to Washington, the upright Henry L. Stimson. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The European elm is highly resistant, and many of them have been planted in Washington, D.C. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Washington visit launched Lawrence into the role of the hydrogen bomb’s most prominent and credible promoter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

President Washington was trying to keep America at peace with both countries. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By prior arrangement Washington went to stay at the elegant and comfortable home of David Deshler. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the morning they would open their headquarters at the Washington Athletic Club, name a chairman, and set up teams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This meant that I could not long delay writing to Washington about my change of plans. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

And Sonia, you and your team in Delhi do the Washington and Florida returns.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Because household help was in short supply in wartime Washington, Elizebeth did a second shift when she got home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then, suddenly, the voice on the loudspeaker crackled back to life: “Judges of the finish announce officially that Washington won by six feet.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On May 23 Conant summoned to Washington all the program chiefs— Lawrence, Briggs, Compton, Murphree, and Urey—in the hope of settling on one or two separation methods and scrapping the others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Washington had learned that colonists in the area recently had been killed and scalped, probably by Indians working for the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On December 1, 1790, Seneca chiefs sent a letter to George Washington. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, after the Nazis surrendered, Elizebeth wrote to Barbara about “a thrilling sight:—Lights on again in Washington. The Capitol. The Monument.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the years immediately following the events in Washington, Chicago, and Elaine, it became increasingly clear that, rather than be diminished by the riots, African Americans were emboldened by them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I happen to be from the state of Washington. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Washington’s troops chased the British from the battlefield, killed a passel of them, and took a couple of hundred prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This older version of Siobhan Washington was grayer, with more wrinkles. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the American pantheon, with Franklin on his deathbed, he ranked second only to Washington himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The newspaper called on Congress to build a federal auditorium in Washington that would be free of racial discrimination. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

From what Grace says, Ms. Washington really wanted to be in Bye Bye Birdie, but she has an out-of-town wedding the opening weekend and would’ve missed half the performances. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to Washington, Blackjack started slowing down and dropping altitude. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The President wrote a letter and asked them to help catch a bandit in Washington. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the dark, gray days of a Washington winter didn’t help my mood much. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know about his playing in Washington Square Park with Cool Papa and the Bluesmen. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Rachel got a scholarship to Washington State, and Rebecca married a Samoan surfer — she lives in Hawaii now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are portraits of me and Barack now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, a fact that humbles us both. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Cover of the official program of the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in Washington, DC, on March 1913. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But—much as he sometimes had after a hard row on Lake Washington back home— he also felt cleansed by the work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since both Franklin and Washington believed that an alliance with France could assure victory in the war, Franklin decided to meet with Bonvouloir. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hume knocked the stroke rate up just a bit, to thirty-six, and Washington swiftly walked past Cal seat by seat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nearby was her family’s inn, Buck’s Tavern, where Washington once set up overnight headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t come to Washington and testify, you won’t be able to look yourself in the mirror for the rest of your life,” Strauss growled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the end, it went nowhere near Mount Mitchell, though it did take in Mount Washington and then carried on another 350 miles to Mount Katahdin in Maine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until he arrived at the University of Washington and turned out for crew that he came into his own. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boats lined up, the starting gun fired, and the regatta—and Washington’s quest to sweep the Hudson—was under way almost before anyone realized it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sent into Washington’s camp disguised as a peddler, she would bring back solid reports on the number of cannon and the number of Continental troops, regiment by regiment. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, D.C., at the Marine Corps memorial, there is a big statue of those Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How would you like to be the new Booker T. Washington?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moch hollered at Hume to take it up another notch, and Washington went to forty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hearing the news in Washington, Conant despaired of obtaining so much bomb material out of Oak Ridge by any method. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The marquis was 19 when he left France and reported to General Washington in Philadelphia in 1777. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys, though, declined to speak to the California boys, and vice versa. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had a vague idea that I had to write to someone to register my find, some official in Washington. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock, the principal got up and welcomed us all to an exciting new year of growth and opportunity at Washington Irving Junior High School. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, reporters at the Washington Post were digging closer and closer to the real story, and the FBI, in spite of Nixon’s efforts, was still investigating. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to leam wouldn’t be taught to me at George Washington High School. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in Ms. Washington’s waiting for class to start, and when Zoey walks in, I brace myself for her evil death stare. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In 1906, looking for a place where Harry could make his mark on the world, the young family had left Williamsport, Pennsylvania, headed west, and settled down in Spokane, Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark, and the Washington Monument stood behind them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Both Olmsted and Hunt were hard at work on George Washington Vanderbilt’s manor, Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina, and together had built the Vanderbilt family’s mausoleum. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In order to make that happen, I needed to send an updated passport photo to the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was housed in the Pakistani embassy in Washington, DC. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When he arrived at Hazleton Washington, he went directly to the office of the general manager. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s ironic that while the Freedom Writers were taking a symbolic stand against violence in our candlelight vigil at the Washington Monument, a murder was being carried out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“General Washington,” said Charles, “he hear we take Virginia, he come back down, defend his house, his land, his all these thing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When we reached the Washington Monument, we formed a huge circle around it and we all began to sing “Stand by Me.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like Washington, so his defenders might have argued, Burr refused to place his own political convictions at the service of any party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Few of them had ever been outside of western Washington; most had never been on a train. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In November 2009, after the briefs were filed in Joe's case and the Graham case, I went to Washington for my third U.S. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Notice, for instance, the veneer headboard of the bed, made from “pure cherrywood,” as Milton likes to say, just like the little tree George Washington chopped down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The outpost officer, who outranked Tallmadge, reluctantly agreed but insisted that a report about Anderson be sent on to Arnold at West Point—where Arnold was expecting a visit from George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he tried out for the baseball team at his new school, and one of the kids asked him what his name was, he said, “Call me Washington.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Du Bois praised and embraced Washington’s emphasis on “thrift, patience, and industrial training for the masses,” but sharply disagreed with his public acceptance of segregation, disenfranchisement, and legalized discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To his left hangs George Washington in his white wig, looking off into the distance. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But they saved their loudest cheers for their commander, General George Washington. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Using today’s standards, it is easy to conclude that Washington had simply sold out to white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The following morning, on Thursday, June 18, Dasch felt ready to go to Washington, DC. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Thirty years ago it was still possible on especially clear days to see the Washington Monument, seventy-five miles away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Washington considered Arnold to be his finest battlefield commander. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington also stopped by the tailor shop of Hercules Mulligan and ordered a suit of civilian clothes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s perfect, but there’s a catch—he’s in Washington. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, Mr. Washington drove up in a new blue Buick. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meteorologist is on now, standing in front of a map of western Washington State. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys didn’t think much of the class business, though, and they flouted it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the news about Pearl Harbor reached Washington, William was devastated. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We held hands again and walked back to the hotel after we pinned the buttons that had names of people who were killed because of violence on a tree in front of the Washington Monument. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Angel had invited Kiara to the recital, and the Washingtons, since they had to drop Kiara off anyway, decided to stay. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that “Farce on Washington,” I call it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ho Chi Minh hoped quoting from the Declaration of Independence would help win him friends in Washington, D.C., he was mistaken. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The boastful convict was Sergeant Thomas Hickey, one of Washington’s bodyguards. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they cook it? No. So don’t give me any lip and drop at least a couple of Washingtons in there. You can afford a Lincoln. I know how the lobster market is doing.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Astonished fans and journalists gathered around them on the dock, peppering them with questions: Was the University of Washington in the District of Columbia? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington Irving Junior High School looked like the same people who built the Marysville Free Public Library, built it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In literature, we read a Tsonga translation of Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, Up from Slavery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington took an immediate liking to Lafayette, who looked upon Washington as the father he never knew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bombs and rockets followed in intensifying numbers until the climax of the show, when an elaborate wire network erected at Festival Hall, on the lakeshore, abruptly flared into a giant explosive portrait of George Washington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The video tribute to Coach Washington was a little less than ten minutes long, mostly consisting of interviews with past teachers and students and narration over old photos. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

John Adams recalled that Washington's house in Philadelphia was “surrounded by an innumerable multitude, from day to day buzzing, demanding war against England, cursing Washington, and crying success to the French patriots and virtuous Republicans.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington had been threatening to retire even before he was inaugurated as president in 1789, and he had repeated the threat in 1792 prior to his reelection. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They went to Washington for protest marches, and Morrie often rode the busses with his students. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty years old, with a thick mustache and the posture of a flagpole, Liddy was known around Washington as intelligent, fiercely loyal, and something of a loose cannon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“And you see the way the Lord worked with young Elisha there?” said Praying Mother Washington, with a calm, sweet smile. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

For both Merrick and Washington these were tactics used to wrest some small measure of control over their lives from a dominating white world. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

George Washington resigned from the militia with the honorary rank of brigadier general and returned home to Mount Vernon. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your predecessors failed to protect the Washington family, at great cost. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Washington and California bounded out ahead of the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At A military hospital camp at Kendall Green, near Washington, D.C. one end of what would become the National Mall, the Washington Monument was one-third built. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Washington is the capital of the United States of America, or 1 centimetre equals approximately 0.39 inches. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The place was a way station on their trip from the forests of Mindanao to Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important of all, the resistance that African Americans demonstrated during the riots in Washington, Chicago, Elaine, and elsewhere were the first stirrings of what would develop into a movement that would change America forever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He recognized various members of the Brooklyn Chess Club and also a few regulars from Washington Square Park. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours gazing into the disapproving face of George Washington as painted by Gilbert Stuart. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Bois didn't completely reject the economic path set out by Washington—but he insisted that commerce alone wouldn’t achieve the ultimate ends both he and Washington wanted: the full liberation of their people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later, some of Half King’s men took Washington to a house where a French flag flew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment, a television-news van arrived at the monkey house from Channel 4 in Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To start off the assembly we presented a video documentary of the Freedom Writers in Washington, D.C. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He got it into the hands of American officers who passed the letter and the woman’s name to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Washington boys backed their shell into position, the official in the stake boat for lane three reached out a hand and laid hold of their stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Longstreet proposes that we move our army to the right around the enemy flank and interpose between Meade and Washington.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to the Syrian Embassy in Washington. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after Wayne Washington interviewed me, he called Gay to verify some facts and told her that he had copied the Mosses’ foster care licensing file. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Here it is. All the way from Washington. Yessir. All the way.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As the crowd grew, it spread back along the Mall, stretching around both sides of the long reflecting pool and extending beyond to the base of the Washington Monument, three-quarters of a mile away. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was already crowded with Washington Post staff members. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Afternoon, James Washington. Go on and pay Booker.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In October 1967, he drove from his base in Norfolk, Virginia, to the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Washington was suspicious about the letter, wondering if Hunter had been given it by the British and if it was “intended to fall into our Hands.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems impossible to escape the conclusion that employment in the shipyards and governmental establishments in the Hampton Roads area will be drastically curtailed,” commented the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the sticky Washington summers, it became an oven. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes after the blast, ash began to rain down on Yakima, Washington, a community of fifty thousand people about eighty miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, he enabled Major Major to double his output, for John Milton was so much shorter than either his own name or Washington Irving’s and took so much less time to write. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A black man suspected of assaulting a white woman had been released without charges by the Washington police. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had nearly perfect pitch for Washington’s language, having begun his public career drafting letters and memoranda for Washington’s signature as a staff officer during the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And when the Washingtons appealed for justice, city officials denied them at every turn. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One morning in early June, Hoover was in Washington. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

—Did you send the letter to Mr. and Mrs. Washington? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 13, seventy top cancer researchers from around the world would gather to present their research, he said, and hundreds of people would attend, including the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the surgeon general. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the White House, the Washington weather is splendid, a sunny fifty-degree day. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But by the half-mile mark, Washington had crept up and nosed ahead of them without raising its stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At this last, an officer joked that the next fox would be a tall sort from Virginia, by the name of George Washington. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mount Washington sometimes gets a little gusty, to put it mildly, and this was a particularly breezy day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Terrorists had crashed planes into two skyscrapers in New York and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And no one in America was prepared to question a decision made by Washington, at least publicly, when rendered so summarily. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington knew firsthand the risks of having a letter written in regular ink fall into British hands. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The AEC Personnel Security Board hearing into J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance convened on April 12, 1954, in the agency’s dilapidated headquarters, a temporary building on Washington’s National Mall left: over from wartime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Washington often asked for secret funds from Morris. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on a bench outside of the Enoch Washington Memorial Tennis Courts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By late that evening a mob of more than four hundred whites began moving toward the poor black section of southwest Washington. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At 4:45 the first- and second-place crews from the previous day’s trials— California, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the New York Athletic Club— paddled from the Princeton shell house out onto Lake Carnegie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since no hotel would take them, they had been invited to stay at the Washington home of Gifford Pinchot, the former governor of Pennsylvania. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Although Washington was not, like Adams or Jefferson, a prodigious reader of books, he was an obsessive reader of newspapers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

All the bills were facing the same way, so that the eyes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Hamilton were all looking at Evan as he counted out the cash. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She even told her about the secret tennis game, and how the Washingtons had been forced the leave the city. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Washington gave Genêt what amounted to a diplomatic cold shoulder, meeting with him very briefly, but refusing to discuss the subject of United States support of the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A single, Black woman in her early thirties, she came from Washington, DC, where she helped support her widowed brother and his children. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Calling on his Washington connections, Galifianakis brought a congressional committee staffer to town to investigate the possible abuse of federal funds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“They figure if they can make it all the way to Washington, well, that’d be a wallop and a half for the morale of the Union.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She told of her life as a young bride in Washington in another letter: I go to the hospital every day and do all I can to ease the pain that is all around me. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall arched windows were wide open, but it was still uncomfortably hot and stuffy in the Convention Hall’s auditorium, located on the corner of L and 5th Streets in Washington, D.C. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A few days later, after Hoover had had the bonus marchers driven from Washington at the point of bayonets, I accosted him: “What about that revolution you predicted if the bonus marchers were driven out?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post proclaimed that, according to the president's doctors, he would be out of bed in two weeks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It also helped that he was strikingly good- looking and built like the oarsman he had been, the former stroke oar of a Washington crew that had won national championships in 1924 and 1926. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels is wearing a George Washington tie. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Zoe Washington lives on the other side of this house, right?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only later did Washington learn that Franklin and Morris had not told him about their operation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul’s idea for a Washington march came at the most propitious of times. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the 1982 Air Florida crash outside Washington, DC, the first officer tried three times to tell the captain that the plane had a dangerous amount of ice on its wings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

First headquarters of the congressional committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, DC, in 1913. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boat shot forward and Washington narrowly eked out the West’s first IRA victory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had, after all, rejected the Sturm und Drang of Du Bois for the accommodationism of Booker T. Washington. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Washington riot gave me a thrill that comes once in a lifetime...” a black woman wrote to the newspaper, The Crisis. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Anyway, his closest personal advisors were discouraging him from playing an active role in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Confident as they had been, the Washington boys were nevertheless surprised at just how easily they had won. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of my Arizona clothes were too permeable for Washington. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm then did a curious thing which he always repeated whenever we met in public in a restaurant in New York or Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, May 9, 100,000 demonstrators spontaneously took to the streets of Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Stanton wanted his commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant, back in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Syracuse and, surprisingly, mighty Cornell— the Big Red hope of the East—continued to hang back with Washington, perhaps playing their game. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jefferson noticed that Washington seemed “unusually reticent” about his choice, probably because Mount Vernon adjoined the site and Washington also owned considerable acreage within its borders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the one-mile mark, the two boats were even and Washington was starting to edge out ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Vietnam veterans, some wearing their combat uniforms, protest outside the US Capitol, smashing toy guns, 1971 About a thousand veterans took part in the weeklong antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Suppose that your teenage daughter found out that she had been accepted at two universities — Harvard University and Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If Washington was the epitome of the virtuous leader who subordinated personal interest to the public good, Burr was a kind of anti-Washington, who manipulated the public interest for his own inscrutable purposes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as he had against California in April on Lake Washington, he called up the rate in the last few hundred feet, just for the show of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But because she was an African American, she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall, Washington’s largest and finest auditorium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Few people saw him as he rode through downtown Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willie moved with his parents to Washington, D.C., but died in the White House of typhoid fever on February 20, 1862. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Washington had just made Church the chief physician of the army, at a salary of four dollars a day. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I immediately secured the woman,” Washington later wrote. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington’s own efforts to find out what was going on did not produce satisfying results, either, especially for a man who wanted to be kept informed about all matters. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Massive international publicity projected the “big six” as March on Washington leaders. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed information to Washington—in a way still unknown—and convinced many Hessians to go over to the American side. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington Observatory, William Lowell Putnam drily notes: “There may be worse weather, from time to time, at some forbidding place on Planet Earth, but it has yet to be reliably recorded.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washington sat in the row behind them and patted their shoulders. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On August 24, he signed the ratification certificate and sent it by registered mail to Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. James Edward Shepard, one of the Mutual’s founders, who quit the firm to devote himself to education, was also a Washington man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Washington decided that he, as commander-in-chief, had the power to have a kind of military court called a court martial. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He circled Washington and Lincoln, lions and tigers and bears, but no Roza. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s what the computer said. I assume so. It left Washington several days ago, and the show opens next week.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had a life in Washington now, operating with some of the gravitas that came with being a senator, but I was still me, living my same normal life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Washington marched into Boston, liberating the city, and then led most of his army to New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and President Johnson, there was a picture of Huey Newton sitting in a big wicker chair with a rifle at his side. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a recipe for political chaos that even the indomitable Washington would have been hard-pressed to control. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Like Washington, Tallmadge had no espionage training and had to learn on the job. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington even suggested that Hunter tell his British case officer that he got the information because American officers “are very incautious in speaking of the strength of their regiments.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A report had been sent to Washington, and a team was coming from the Pentagon to test everything. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He knew his loss in the three-mile race on Lake Washington didn’t necessarily tell him anything about the four-mile race on the Hudson, not any more than it had last year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dinwiddie gave Washington a letter to present to the French commander. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington left to our imagination exactly how Boudinot must have spied on prisoners. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington said nothing whatsoever about slavery in his Farewell Address, sustaining the silence that the Congress had adopted as its official posture early in his presidency. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington dismissed the requests as sentimental, pointing out that if Andre had succeeded in his mission, it might very well have turned the tide of the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

After he was discharged, he rejoined his family and took a job as a policeman in September 1861, becoming one of the first 150 men hired when Washington, D.C., formed its brand-new Metropolitan Police Department. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

California challenged several times but Washington repeatedly moved back in front, still holding at thirty-two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“For crying out loud, what are you doing, George Washington?” demanded Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the new high school would be named after Coach Washington. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

An hour later the JV race began, and once again Washington made short work of their opponents, rowing a remarkably similar race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Fearing that Champe would be executed if Arnold caught him, Washington discharged him from the Continental Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton would be the draftsman, but Washington must be the author. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping to tell you all about Washington. I had a great trip,” she says, smiling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

My dad kept a file, and at least four or five times a year he would write to Washington, D.C., asking someone to please help get his father’s coffin back to Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

While the exact number of horses in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War is unknown, it’s safe to say that the total reached the upper tens of thousands. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In 1792 he told Washington that the bargain made that evening with Hamilton was the greatest political mistake of his life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Compton returned to his Washington hotel and penciled out a budget of $300,000 to cover the next six months. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sitting by the radio at Harry Rantz’s unfinished home on Lake Washington, Joyce and the kids cheered too. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’d yet to do so as a coach, and the people back in Washington who paid his salary had begun to take note of that fact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he enrolled at the University of Washington, he set his sights on coxing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In one notorious plot of 1861, local rebels schemed to assassinate the president-elect when his railroad train passed through Baltimore on the way to Washington for his first inauguration. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the last photo that she saw Leanne Washington again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington's days as a volunteer at her church did more for Lambert's children than most people will ever know. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Years later a Washington coxswain would sum up the sentiment of hundreds of boys who felt his influence: “In his presence Washington crewmen always stood, for he symbolized that for which God’s children always stand.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He tapped his finger on the building behind the Washingtons. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“All they play are oldies now. I thought it was a joke at first, or something Washington wanted, but apparently that’s all that gets requested these days.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One of them would soon be living in Texas; another, for a time, in Washington state. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I saw Nico over there as Mozart. I like the wig. But I thought he was George Washington.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A letter was dispatched telling the Fellowship Office in Washington that he enthusiastically endorsed my change in plans. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The other Indians fled as Washington and Gist “took this Fellow into Custody, and kept him till about 9 o’Clock at Night, and then let him go.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new plan is that she will accompany Susie on a visit to her grandparents in Washington. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as her work was done in the late summer, Lin left Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In offices around Washington, D.C., several people opened safes to see if their copies of the Pentagon Papers were missing. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There Washington would begin setting up his biggest and most successful spy network. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t forget the first Sunday I’d gone to church in Washington. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In public, Washington railed against court challenges to Jim Crow laws. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was that now, as part of that remembrance, she found herself standing before the students of Booker T. Washington, the very school from which she had been expelled a half century before. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She discovered that Enoch loved baseball, and she saw the photo of Leanne Washington holding a pie when it was still hanging in the church reception hall, not hidden in a dark, dusty closet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We would like to discuss a letter concerning a lost fortune, and the Allen family's role in driving Enoch Washington and his family from Lambert. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Begging pardon, sir, but I’ve not been informed as to the whereabouts of Washington’s headquarters. If I was to be given that information, I could pursue my obligations with greater speed.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish it could be now, but Mom’s already brought home empty packing boxes and has started looking for a place to rent in Washington. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The following spring she was in Washington, for she intended to return to Port Royal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly neither he nor Washington had viewed themselves as traitors to the revolutionary cause. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the Washington parade and Wilson’s inauguration, Paul arranged a meeting with the new president. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Months went by, a year passed, and finally in the spring of ’83, almost a year and a half after the fighting had stopped, General Washington proclaimed the peace. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even more momentously, he agreed to come to Washington to testily personally against his old friend. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One of the most complicated deceptions Washington ever put together came after Howe occupied Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington went up to thirty-four now, Cal to a punishing thirty-eight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As the California boat fell into the field of view of the Washington boys, their confidence surged. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks of becoming commander-in-chief, Washington began his career as a spymaster. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By stealing and reading secret messages and by reading the decoded reports of agents and spy hunters, Washington was finding out what the British were going to do sometimes even before British troops knew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not until 1930, when a young Washington admiralty lawyer and keen hiker named Myron Avery took over the development of the project, did work actually begin, but suddenly it moved on apace. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The drunken Frenchmen also told Washington where their four forts were and that each one had about 150 soldiers in it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been on the New York Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies along with John Jay, president of the Continental Congress and Washington’s chief of counterintelligence. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia's parents had pointed her toward Howard University in Washington, DC, and she was due to leave the day after Lily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Almost as soon as the race got under way, the Washington boat had begun to ship water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Soon the three of them were trekking past the Washington Memorial Chapel, Russell and Piper with their bag, Maniac with his satchel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second section of this first draft that Washington sent to Hamilton focused on the foreign policy issues that had dominated his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mudd had been helpful to Booth in Maryland, but the actor also needed the doctor’s help—an introduction—in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody doesn’t hate the Gypsies, but there’s nobody that doesn’t hate us. Nobody is hated close to us. They even hate us in Washington America.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Constitution Hall clearly was the most appropriate place in Washington for a concert by Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

What did matter, indeed struck most readers as the only thing that truly mattered, was that George Washington was retiring. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see him so much, Shad. Pa had said that maybe after the war was over I could go to Washington, maybe I could shake his hand.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They produced two identical solutions: The letter, addressed to General Gage, contained reports on Washington’s military plans and on the strength of the Continental Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you just trying to get me caught, George Washington?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

David Silverstein lives in Nairobi, but he owns a house near Washington, D.C. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To continue the war with any hope of victory, Washington would have to rely more on his spies than on his soldiers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its emissaries had boasted to Congress that the city could deliver a grander and more appropriate setting than anything New York, Washington, or any other city could propose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

An impeccably groomed and proper San Francisco lawyer with extensive connections on Wall Street and in Washington, Gaither was a habitue of the worlds of finance and of technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Because the “Waters were quite impassable” for horses, Washington sent three men along the shore and sped up his own journey by borrowing a canoe and taking the rest of the party by water. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington was right next door, in lane number two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Signing Washington Irving’s name to official documents was not much of a career, perhaps, but it was less monotonous than signing “Major Major Major.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He knows that without Herold he will be lost on the streets of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington police force was nowhere to be seen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But it was still a new course record by a wide margin, and Tom Bolles remained undefeated on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Franklin’s cautious meetings with Bonvouloir led to an addition to George Washington’s espionage organization: an overseas intelligence service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Ms. Washington got all theatrical like this back in September, pretty much everyone busted out laughing. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Could he escape Washington, its streets filled with thousands of soldiers and loyal citizens, all there to celebrate the end of the Civil War? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Washington law required separate public schools for black students and white students, recreational facilities and auditoriums often were available to interracial groups after school hours. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There’s the acceptance letter to the University of Washington, folded up small. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Garfield seemed near death Saturday evening, Blaine recommended that Arthur return to Washington as soon as possible, and the vice president took the night train out of New York. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If you look to your right, you can see the George Washington Bridge. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The boys in the California boat weighed a total of 1,557 pounds; the boys in the Washington boat weighed 1,561, just four pounds heavier. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This way of business—and of life—puzzled and distressed Washington Duke. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My job now was to ride a bus across the George Washington Bridge where a fellow was waiting for me to hand him a bag of numbers betting slips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard Howe’s top officers discussing what sounded like a plan for a surprise attack on Washington’s army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in those last two hundred yards, in an extraordinary burst of speed, rowing at forty strokes per minute, pounding the water into a froth, Washington passed California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every major newspaper in the country reprinted the article over the ensuing weeks, though only one, the Courier of New Hampshire, gave it the title that would echo through the ages—“Washington’s Farewell Address.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No Washington varsity crew had won one since. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Arnold got the report on the capture of Anderson and the “suspicious papers” before Washington arrived. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the battle between the British and French fleets in Chesapeake Bay, thanks to Washington’s agents, the French may have been reading Admiral Graves’s flag signals. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m sorry we don’t. We fly from Washington to Ft. Lauderdale,” said Dolly. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My name is Sticky Washington. I’m just wondering if this is the right place. The yellow lady told me to come down the hall and sit with someone named Reynard.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sending secret messages from Washington to Riverbank was a logistical hassle and a security headache. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A powerful figure in Washington, he was allowed to shape the agency as he wanted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When California had first approached Washington about a new head coach in the fall of 1923, it was George Pocock to whom they had first offered the job. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then in the Clarkston area of Washington the insects became refractory — they were harder to kill than in the orchards of the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys and elsewhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s so nice of you to think of me. But actually, we’ve made the decision I won’t be moving to Washington.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

During the French and Indian War, Washington and other people living in America thought of themselves as British, subjects of the king, and citizens of their colony. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We wait for the next teams to compete, then we’ll meet and beat the other high-scoring team and pack our bags for Washington!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“And you, too, Sticky—pretty bold work. But what happened to the Sticky Washington I know? You know, the shy and timid one?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With Knowlton dead, Washington had no way of knowing exactly what went wrong in the planning of Hale’s mission. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burger remained quiet while he watched Quirin remove the note that Dasch had written to him before leaving for Washington, DC. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Little does Grant know that an adoring Washington, D.C., is waiting to wrap its arms around him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is no sign of life, intelligent or otherwise, in places we call Washington, New York, Boston, Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and Peking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next shot was fired by the Washington Post. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said that as freedom fighters we could not have known of such men as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson “and not been moved to act as they were moved to act.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of those benefits took place in Washington, D.C.—at Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He could hear the mocking laughter of colleagues in Washington and at Rand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

California and Navy were far out in front, with Columbia trailing them; Washington had eased past a weakening Penn crew but remained a devastating four lengths back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Without her, there was nothing keeping him in Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, George Pocock went from boathouse to boathouse, tending to the shells of Washington’s competitors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A black-and-white picture of the Washingtons remained on the screen. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Midway was to be fun, a great pleasure garden stretching for more than a mile from Jackson Park all the way to the border of Washington Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She survived the British occupation while my father fought with Washington’s troops. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this scale, intelligent life can be discerned in Boston and Washington and New York. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, copies of The Washington Post were hitting driveways all over the region. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Durham, with its thriving insurance business, was the best proof possible that Washington’s accommodationist program delivered the goods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A guy in Washington, DC, who studies how they evolved. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ms. Washington looks around the room but doesn’t say anything. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

On the next stroke, all eight of the Washington oars caught the water cleanly, perfectly, at once. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the afternoon in Washington, D.C. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been sent by Washington to move the eyases to another site.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Shouted to the Washington Irving Junior High School Brass Quintet that they’d have to go practice somewhere else—Now!—which they did, in a hurry. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Zach just got accepted to University of Washington on a full scholarship to study financial engineering. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The strain of Ebola virus that had erupted near Washington went into hiding somewhere in the rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only nearby Mount Washington exceeds it for both heft and popularity as a hiking destination in the White Mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys were bare chested, having stripped off their jerseys just before climbing into their boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Given these circumstances, it’s not surprising that so many blacks agreed with Washington. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the war, Lee became president of Washington University in Lexington, Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On April 2 a warm sun blossomed over Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The spirit of George Washington Carver hangs strongly over the campus—a quiet, almost hauntingly quiet area of trees and grass. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted white granite to match the Lincoln and Washington monuments. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His only reservation related to length: “All the columns of a large Gazette would scarcely, I conceive, contain the present draft,” Washington noted, adding at the end, “I may be mistaken.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Washington and California freshman crews paddled briskly out toward the starting line off Sand Point. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps sensing the hopelessness of his situation, Garfield yearned to leave the cramped, depressing White House sickroom and the foul smell of Washington's swamps that wafted in through the open windows. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, Washington called in the soldiers and told them to lock Honeyman up until the next day, when he would be put on trial as a spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debate over the Super had not let up, resulting in frequent summonses to Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that the Washington Monument is five hundred and fifty-five feet tall and was completed in 1884?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Major Benjamin Tallmadge, Washington’s intelligence chief, saves a “country girl”—a spy—from British pursuers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spying on the French, Washington has his men quietly count canoes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth knew that without their help, his chances of successfully smuggling Lincoln out of Washington and into the Deep South were nonexistent. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Mr. Washington was only a phone call away. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating, he continued to hang around the Washington shell house, informally advising students and coaches and generally helping out. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jack Neylan was concerned that the demands of Washington service would expose Berkeley’s faculty star to the no-win politics of the nation’s capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The government knew that thousands of milling, angry blacks not only could completely disrupt Washington—but they could erupt in Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got off the bus near Washington Square, a flat stretch of grass that sat in front of an old church. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

About a month before the “Farce on Washington,” the New York Times reported me, according to its poll conducted on college and university campuses, as “the second most sought after’ ’ speaker at colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born and raised in Washington Heights, and Boogie down Bronx—my first love. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The Washington, D.C. school riot report is disgusting and revealing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They would go to Olney, take the train to St. Louis, and from there go on to Washington. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thank Mr. Washington and carry our bundles out of the store. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Washington, however, regarded all such pictures as dangerous dreams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

With all of those thousands upon thousands of “angry revolutionists,” so few stayed over that the next morning the Washington hotel association reported a costly loss in empty rooms. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in September word came to Washington from the excitable general who, months before, had annoyed Congress with his predictions of a long and difficult war. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when the visible army was being beaten on battlefields, Washington’s invisible army was winning victories in the back alleys of the spy war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was brought into the plot for his encyclopedic knowledge of the smuggling routes from Washington, D.C., into the Deep South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Joe and the other freshman boys from Washington who showed up for the 1934 Poughkeepsie Regatta could not have been better cast to play their parts in the ongoing regional conflict. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Why, if I had a penny for each person what axed me if you was a dimwit, I’d be rich as George Washington! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Adams chose the latter course; like Washington, he was committed to American neutrality at almost any cost. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever the details, some woman gave Washington vital information. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall, Scruggs headed back to Washington, DC, and enrolled in school again. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But before they left, Washington spotted many French canoes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Government offices in Washington and other cities, as well as many stores, closed for the day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The two-bottle system, supplied by Jay, gave Washington the secure form of writing that he wanted. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within the leadership of the revolutionary generation, Washington was, if not unique, at least unusual, for never having traveled or lived in Europe. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You are. They’re going to crack down on you for signing Washington Irving’s name to all those letters you’ve been signing Washington Irving’s name to. How do you like that?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A few times, she and her husband conversated fast and quiet about Mr. Washington and when the King’s ships would arrive for the invasion. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington marching band now took up a position in the observation room, switched on the microphones, and began to play dance music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A reporter from the St. Petersburg Times, Wayne Washington, was interested in the information we offered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Throughout Garfield's early years in Congress, the family lived in rented rooms in Washington, returning to their house in Hiram, Ohio, during Congressional holidays. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In 1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then Du Bois tore into Washington for the older man’s lack of a spiritual counterbalance to “the evils of Get and Grab.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Just before the competition,” Molly explains, “a reporter from the Washington Post came to interview the team. But he left when he found out you weren’t there.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I must have picked them up while sitting in a transfer prison in Washington, Pennsylvania, on my way from New York. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washington was even more thorough than the deputies had been, and I gave him many details. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Washington freshmen jumped out early to a half- length lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Copies were sent to the Royal Society and the Linnean Society in England, and to the Smithsonian in Washington, among dozens of institutions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A group of businessmen from the chamber of commerce had tried to persuade Arthur to run for the Washington state legislature. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Washington, once the supreme Virginian, had in their eyes gone over to the other side. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A native of Washington, DC, Hoover had started out as a messenger boy at the Library of Congress. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Washington,” the corpulent colonel broke in irascibly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As Washington pulled even, Moch leaned over toward the Syracuse boat, smiled, and said, rather softly but in his deep baritone voice, “Go to hell, Syracuse.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the crack of the starting pistol, Syracuse immediately jumped in front, rowing at thirty-four, followed closely by Washington, rowing at thirty-one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Today there is just one, the Mount Washington, still imposing and festive with its perky red roof but inescapably forlorn in its solitary grandeur. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of logs into the locks that would raise them to the level of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

During all that time, however, Washington constantly received information about British activities in New York, thanks to Patriot spy networks in New York City and on Long Island. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower offered to reappoint him for a new term, but Strauss had grown weary of dodging brickbats in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“She better be careful,” Ethel said when Cha-Cha strutted into place to pose for a “Dogs of Washington!” publicity photo the next day. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

All three got into a car and drove around Washington, Hunt and Liddy pointing out locations of potential “entry operations,” as Liddy called them. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Vern told us how limestone from Rockport, Maine, was sent to Washington, DC, to build an important building, which he later remembered to be the Capitol building. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The aide on horseback next to General Washington spoke, and the general leaned forward to hear better. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers heaved the corpse like a sack of corn onto the wagon that would bring the body to its first stop on the journey back to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can go up and take George Washington Bridge, or you can take a ferry.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie’s favorite among the lead molds was the head of George Washington, though sometimes the nose stuck and it was ruined. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her mission accomplished, Mary and Lewis drove back to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They settled in the rich farm country around Spokane, in eastern Washington. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the funeral train left Washington for Cleveland, warships in the Navy Yard fired their guns and bells in the city's churches and schools rang. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I understand all you’ve been telling me. How will it make a good impression for me if you signed Washington Irving’s name instead of my own?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In Du Bois’s view, Washington’s public statements arguing that poor education and bad choices were responsible for the plight of former slaves ignored the damage wrought by caste and threatened to rationalize the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were about twenty miles from their hometown of Cedar, Washington, rumbling along a winding highway. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had built the Spanish cedar shell in which Washington had won. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had returned to using Washington as her last name. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then like I did in Ms. Washington’s class, I act out the story of Glenn Burke. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Shadrach wrote that he and Jenny had seen the President and General Grant as they drove through the Washington streets together. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, in the newsroom of the New York Times Washington bureau, Sheehan asked his boss, Robert Phelps, to step out to the lobby for a private conversation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He clung tight to the copy editor as they wove through Washington traffic to the Post building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And, to keep the British pinned down in New York City, Washington wanted Clinton to think that Gates’s troops were on their way there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington knew he had to organize Patriot networks to spy on the Redcoats in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Due to my fragile health, I couldn’t go to Washington, D.C. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And true to his word, he arranged to have the Fifteenth Cavalry from Fort Myer, Virginia, moved to the western perimeter of Washington, DC, to be ready to assist if trouble developed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Rumors flew around Washington that the handsome young millionaire from Massachusetts, Senator John Kennedy, might try out the waters in the Indiana primary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sensing that she needed companionship, George Washington curled at Jessie’s side and did not once attack her feet. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I believed it and put it in the story that appeared in the Washington Post. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The political consensus that had held together during Washington’s first term, and had then begun to fragment into Federalist and Republican camps over the Whiskey Rebellion and Jay’s Treaty, broke down completely in 1797. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He arranged meetings for Farmer and Goldfarb in Washington, D.C., including one at the White House with the First Lady, Hillary Clinton. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I grew up very poor and so did my husband,” said Wanda Brown, the fifty-eight-year-old wife of a retired planner for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard who lives in Puyallup, Washington, near Tacoma. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The members of Congress always knew when Miss Anthony had arrived in Washington,” a fellow suffragist recalled. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Though John Surratt was being sought by Stanton as one of Lincoln’s assassins, he had not even been in Washington on April 14. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a Washington hotel, Hunt told Barker the idea was to disrupt Ellsberg’s talk, and to physically attack him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Whereas Washington had been able to levitate above the partisan factions, “the next president of the United States will only be the president of a party.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As part of the deception, Washington ordered three generals with troops near New York to act as if they were preparing to invade the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there were several newspaper stories, including one in the Washington paper, but I didn’t read a single one. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“According to the letter, Leanne Washington volunteered with the church. Whatever she did, it was important.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Praying Mother Washington took him in her arms, and kissed him, and their tears, his tears and the tears of the old, black woman, mingled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was renting a town house in a luxury condo complex down by the Hudson River, just south of the George Washington Bridge, where Nicole and I ran and hiked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

To our ears, it sounds so obvious because we occupy the future location that Washington envisioned. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

After the crowd onshore watched Baker dump a weighted object into the river, the ship traveled around a bend to the site of the old jail, on the grounds of the Washington Arsenal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said he would take her report immediately to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in August of 1796, at the same time he was making final revisions on his Farewell Address, Washington wrote his Address to the Cherokee Nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the halfway mark, Washington had open water on both boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew of Herman’s unsettled state, and the Washington office must have been wondering how long I would care to remain in Copenhagen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I walk through Washington Square Park, pausing to watch a group of young acrobats perform for tourist tips. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Amen, bless the Lord!” cried Praying Mother Washington. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Gene felt that if the team did its job properly, the human population of Washington would be safe. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The club’s telegram reached Depew in Washington twenty minutes after the final ballot, just as Chicago’s congressional delegation began celebrating at the Willard Hotel near the White House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Faced with ongoing Indigenous resistance and continuous pressure from settlers, Washington’s administration negotiated the first of many treaties it would make with Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All one could really see of Washington were the white tips of their blades appearing and disappearing rhythmically in the water, still at a nice, steady, leisurely twenty-eight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Building his campaign around reforming the city’s political system and better tending to its neglected neighborhoods, Washington won the election by a hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She read each caption, but nothing seemed like it was tied to the Washingtons. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The students of Booker T. Washington High, blacks and whites together, rise to cheer her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Only a week earlier he had found himself in the humiliating position of having to ride in a wheelchair through Union Station in Washington, D.C., the station he had designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He put his mind to remembering the day in Washington, working on details of pictures and statues, dredging up the sound of Miss Edmunds’ voice, recalling his own exact words and her exact answers. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Patrick is going to the University of Washington because he wants to be near the music there. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Washington, for his part, obliged his Virginia critics by urging his stepgrandson to attend Harvard in order to escape the provincial versions of learning currently ascendant in the Old Dominion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But still, since moving to Washington at the age of ten, she’d never once ridden a bus or the Metro or been driven by someone who didn’t work for the Secret Service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Who, for example, had abducted the oilman McBride in Washington, D.C., or thrown W. W. Vaughan off the speeding train? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, they stayed home, right in the heart of Washington. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Seeking the truth from a suspected spy, Washington gets shocking news about a “mole.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This here is Russ Washington. He’s new,” Erin says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

During Washington’s trek into the Ohio wilderness, an Indian attacks him and his companion, Christopher Gist. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as Washington later remarked, Boudinot had “better opportunities than most other officers in the army, to obtain knowledge of the Enemy’s Situation, motions and...designs.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of the Washington Monument picked up the day’s first rays of faint pink light. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Wayne Washington called to talk to me about what I remembered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That evening, as the Empire Builder climbed over the Cascades at Stevens Pass and set out across the arid wheat country of eastern Washington, the boys were on a lark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance, floodlights began to light up the monuments and buildings of Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But isn’t it about learning statistics and understanding how those stats impact Washington Heights and other neighborhoods in New York?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most graphic illustration of the singular status that Washington enjoyed was the decision of the Constitutional Convention to deposit the minutes of its secret deliberations with him for safekeeping. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The war had ended before the building could actually be used, so it had been turned over to the University of Washington in the fall of 1919. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was skilled enough at his woodworking that the ever-demanding President Washington employed him several times to make objects for his household. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I slide over to Ms. Washington and hold up my hand. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Whenever Ms. Byrd worked a double shift at the hospital on a Friday or Saturday night, Clayton and his grandfather snuck out to find the Bluesmen here or there, but mostly at Washington Square Park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The game, as Washington had called it, was not up. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Henry Washington. He’s been living over there with Miss Della Jones on Thirteenth Street. But she’s too addled now to keep up. So he’s looking for another place.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking about Booker T. Washington, our “late great leader,” who said we can be as close as the fingers on the hand, etc. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took a breather underneath the George Washington Bridge, at the river’s edge. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He successfully lobbied for Washington to head the Continental Army and personally selected Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence, two strategic decisions designed to assure Virginia’s support for the cause. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This one would determine the group that would go to Washington. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He told her he was going back to New Haven after visiting friends in Washington, D.C. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next day, there were riots in Chicago, in Savannah, in Washington, in Toledo, in Detroit, in Pittsburgh, and in New York. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is administratively fashionable in Washington to attribute the delay of applied science in medicine to a lack of systematic planning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald and Angel couldn’t have made it through the trial without Mr. Washington. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew she had attended her high school reunion three years prior, and the dedication of the Enoch Washington Tennis Courts in Vickers Park a year ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He drove downtown in the old Franklin his father had left behind and parked on Washington Street, where he sat on the hood and played his banjo and sang, hoping for spare change. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When Ms. Washington gets all excited about a lesson, she gets real theatrical and starts speaking in this dramatic, booming voice like she would if she were on a stage. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“The good news is the hospital I interviewed with in Washington State scheduled a follow-up call. Cross your fingers.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But some of Stuart’s cavalry had cut the wires and they might not be patched yet, so Washington would be in the dark and screaming its head off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was quiet at the Washington shell house on the morning of the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She has not forgotten about the tape and the tape player and the old earbuds that Luke Messenger gave her on her birthday at Big Chuck’s, way back in Washington. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Working for her were her son Oliver, her mother, and her brother-in-law, all busily preparing fried chicken for the Washington boys’ lunch. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But he briefly gets caught in the portrait of President Washington and misjudges the thickness of the bunting decorating the front of the box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Washington knew that he and his country owed the French an eternal debt. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

By midmorning, a steady flow of warm air from the south had ruffled the blue surface of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We know that his superiors sent this officer to follow Prince from Maryland, through Washington, D.C., and into Virginia, where the officer shot Prince several times. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Roosevelt, in her day the most outspoken of presidents’ wives, had worked tirelessly since coming to Washington to promote racial equality. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it was not long before the Super’s apparent lack of progress in Washington had Lawrence and Alvarez feeling uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, he took a job in Washington, analyzing weapons expenditures for the U.S. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Washington victory had been held up to the nation as some sort of fluke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The train carried him to a perpetual dust storm known as Ephrata, Washington, where there was an air base in the middle of a dry lakebed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The news would come by telegraph from Washington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were many speculations: if Lee should take the cities of Harrisburg and Philadelphia, might he not go on to Baltimore and then to Washington? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Along the route to Washington, the train passed black-draped stations and crowds of mourners standing silently. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The rider who lost one of Washington’s important messages was Tallmadge himself. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to trust her, even if it does mean doing the impossible to make our trip to Washington, D.C., possible. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Washington is in a state of shock. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sasaki had indeed moved to Washington, D.C., in the employ of the Japanese navy. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, D.C., the Public Allies founders had mustered a fledgling class of fifteen Allies who were working in various organizations around the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since Washington had no children of his own—the Father of His Country was almost certainly sterile—he was less vulnerable to charges of hereditary aspirations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the Philadelphia part of the deception, Washington brought in Major Clark and told him to have one of his agents appear to become a traitor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the prisoners were released, the NWP staged a huge mass meeting in Washington, DC, to honor the women who had served time in jail. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Washington slid past the middies as if the Navy boat were pinned to the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the time George Washington appeared before Dinwiddie, he was a major landowner. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, Dasch was in Washington, DC, and he was finally ready to call the FBI for a second time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As the Washington boys retreated to the Princeton Inn that night, anxiety cascaded down on them again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washington had called his office from a pay phone, so he casually read the morning paper while Gerald sat silently, trying to figure out where to start. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most succinct way to put it is that Washington was leaving office not just because he was hearing whispers of mortality,but also because he was wounded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is still an imposing presence, but the stony mass that rises from the New England woods today represents, at most, the stubby bottom one-third of what was ten million years ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The group was planning a march on Washington, calling for sanctions. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was not invited to Washington to meet the president until many years later. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington found Church guilty of “criminal correspondence with the enemy” but did not go so far as to convict him of espionage. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what happens to politicians' girlfriends in Washington. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While he waited to change trains in Kansas City, he heard his name called and a message was shoved into his hand—orders to report to Washington to the office of the Secretary of War. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, the fifth April of the war arrived, and in southern Illinois it came in a burst of warmth and color that seemed prophetic to those who waited for word from Washington. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any boy with a name like George Washington must surely have great things expected of him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The 1933 Poughkeepsie Regatta had been canceled due to the Depression, but Washington returned to Long Beach that summer to race against the best crews the East had to offer: Yale, Cornell, and Harvard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, Jean,” my father said, “some people in Washington don’t know any better. China seems so far away they imagine strange things.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ky Ebright knew from his own days at Washington what the presence of George Pocock meant to the Washington crew program. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ky Ebright was, in fact, in the midst of doing essentially the same thing—perhaps in reaction to all hed been reading about the Washington sophomores. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not Washburn, it’s his people in Washington dragging their feet,” another voice is saying. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Often this meant making a trip into downtown Washington, but sometimes she had to travel much farther to get the information she needed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A small crowd had gathered at the Washingtons’ house by the time they arrived. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Till this day, I don’t know nothing about Washington, D.C., just that I don’t ever want to go there no more. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

After pulling away from the rest of the field, Washington and an elite Navy crew entered the home stretch rowing bow to bow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

While I was in college, I kept up with a few of my high school friends, most especially Santita, who’d landed at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Along with her mother, brothers, and family friends, Mollie went on carriage excursions around the city and took a boat to Mount Vernon, George Washington's former home, for a picnic. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Grace went to Hughes, she had Ms. Washington for ELA, too, and in high school, Grace was the stage manager of all the shows Ms. Washington directed. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A week after that meeting, Ann and a small group of other Durham blacks traveled to Washington, D.C., to air their grievances before officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lin-Manuel brought most of his cast along with him to Washington, a talented multiracial ensemble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was all too familiar with the whims of Lake Washington, from his coxswain days, and the weather on the Oakland Estuary had been typically but frustratingly calm and pleasant. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Booth told Mary that he would be riding out of Washington this evening. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late November, with only a few weeks to go before the design was due to her professor, she and two classmates drove down to Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the America of the 1790s, Washington’s image was everywhere, in paintings, prints, lockets; on coins, silverware, plates, and household bric-a-brac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Either one. We figure that Washington Irving and Irving Washington are one man and that he’s using two names just to throw us off the track. That’s done very often you know.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She traveled with her mother from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., where they had to change trains to continue south. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s always headed somewhere. Washington and Chicago and Oklahoma and Kansas City—sometimes it seems like he’s never home. But wherever he goes, he remembers how I dote on tiny things.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down while the Washington police stood by and did nothing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If she ran off to Washington to join the protests, where would she sleep? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By this time, Lucretia and Mollie were aboard an express train from New Jersey to Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the front wall were silhouettes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, a map of the world, and a map of North Carolina. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“At first I thought it was you, hightailing it for Mexico. But now I see it wasn’t you. He didn’t say anything about Washington Irving, did he?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Our information on what was happening in and around Philadelphia comes from Washington’s reports, letters, and diaries and from family stories handed down generation to generation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president got out and looked up at what he considered the most beautiful sight in Washington—the Lincoln Memorial at night. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

From this meager beginning had sprung the ineffectual squadron commander who was now spending the better part of each working day in Pianosa forging Washington Irving’s name to official documents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Another rumor circulating in the streets of Philadelphia caught Jefferson’s ear: Washington had leaked the news that he opposed Adams’s foreign policy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That night, just as the church bells began to ring midnight at the First Baptist on Washington Street, Benton was walking up the stairwell of the bell tower. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“North America is exactly like that. There are countless tribal nations throughout this land. In Washington State alone, there are more than thirty tribes.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, do you feel sad, George Washington?” asked Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A luncheon was given for me that afternoon by the Nigerian High Commissioner, His Excellency Alhadji Isa Wali, a short, bespectacled, extremely warm and friendly man who had lived in Washington, D.C. for two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She attended high school in the suburbs of Seattle and was a second-year student studying sociology at the University of Washington when she first saw Shin in a YouTube video. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Surratt travels frequently between Canada, the South, New York City, and Washington, arranging deals for everything from guns to medicine. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to a line like “Fight manfully onward,” I could believe that if I held out, one day I might really get to Washington, P.A. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What looked from Washington, D.C., like a distant battlefield of the Cold War, appeared completely different from the vantage point of North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

James Parker had kept tabs on Siobhan Washington throughout the years. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I refuse to look up because I know Ms. Washington’s looking at me, and the last thing I want to do right now is to make eye contact with her. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Why, twenty-two million black people should tomorrow give a dollar apiece to build a skyscraper lobby building in Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington later that day, a judge barred the Washington Post from printing any more Pentagon Papers stories until the court could rule on the government’s case against the paper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In early April, Jayme won the junior division of the state competition, making her eligible to compete in Washington, D.C., on National History Day that summer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We have to get permission if we’re going beyond Washington Street.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Washington was told that a baker had been given the letter by the woman, a former girlfriend. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could borrow someone’s back tires and return them later, but you could not do this in Washington, D.C., and you could especially not do this to a senators car. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A long time dead but living still among the other soldiers on that monument in Washington, D.C. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Twice a week, she calls Mr. Washburn in Washington to find out if there’s any news about Papi and my uncle. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The A July 1863 photograph of the Capitol building under construction, southeast view. people of Washington, overcome by news of the war’s end, hope to glimpse their president on this historic night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

So Washington decided to give Gray even more bits of truth to ensure that Gray would be trusted by his British handlers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Washington had put him in charge of American forces in Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tensions began to mount in the Washington shell house that October. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Around now, Rahel thought, if this were Washington, I would be on my way to work. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven o'clock in Washington, DC, on the same night, Dasch was still talking. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The township encompassed the Union Stock Yards and two large parks: Washington Park, with lawns, gardens, and a popular racetrack, and Jackson Park, a desolate, undeveloped waste on the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The North Vietnamese agreed to accept South Vietnam as a separate country, and a cease-fire was established.On the same day, in Washington, DC, the Selective Service announced the end of the draft. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Time and again the students on the ferry called out for Washington to “take it up,” to raise the stroke and put California away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Realizing the sensitive political situation, he avoided the Washington apartment he shared with Conkling. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he made one compelling point that showed Lawrence and Alvarez how they might restore the program to Washington’s front burner. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of driving down to Washington— maybe go to the Smithsonian or the National Gallery. How would you like to keep me company?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was encouraged because everyone always told me I had a voice like Dinah Washington and perfect pitch. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"How would you like to be the new Booker T. Washington?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could be more help, Gerald,” Mr. Washington replied with real regret. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said that Washington, D.C., had changed when you went back last summer. You didn’t remember the subway being there.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

With the addresses this old woman gave me, I found a cheap apartment on Washington Street. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington had made him an agent long before, ordering him to pose as a Tory and to stay with the main British forces as they moved across New Jersey. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When rapids slowed their progress, Washington, determined to get his information to Dinwiddie swiftly, set out on foot with Gist. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time when we went to Washington with my father, Allie sent him a postcard, but I'll bet he never got it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They finally came to a point of land located just where the canal known as the Montlake Cut—simply the Cut, in local parlance—entered Union Bay on the west side of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There is a student group the next day at George Washington University. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the while, Washington the general was using the discoveries of Washington the spymaster to move toward the moment when he could hurl his army into a battle that would decide the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, whenever I looked at dollar bills, I always had a strange sense that Washington was glaring at me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“The Washington team used to be called the Bullets,” she continued. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“The reporters could hardly believe their ears,” one Washington Post journalist recalled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

According to the tale told by Washington Irving, when Rip Van Winkle awoke and returned to his village, twenty years had passed, and many things had changed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Washington also advised blacks to spurn higher education, ridiculing degrees in Greek, Latin, and law as “ornamental gewgaws” and stressing the sufficiency of industrial education for his people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

By a mile and a half, Washington had moved back ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My father said we’d get to Washington, P.A., the day after the next, sometime in the afternoon. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even after months of managing egos and matching names and positions, Garfield didn't have the rest of his cabinet in place when he reached Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her loyalty, she said, had been to Harold Washington’s principles more than to the man himself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I studied the photo of Father smiling, his arm around Dr. King’s shoulders, shortly before the speeches began at the March on Washington. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When the Washington trip first came up, I just assumed I wasn’t going. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was so fancy ’cause Ma had bought it offen a woman who is the cousin of George Washington. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

At its psychological nub, Washington’s inveterate realism was rooted in his commitment to control, over himself and over any and all events with the power to determine his fate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer got off the train in Washington, D.C., carrying a report with his recommendations for the future. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because of someone under Conger’s command, it was obvious Booth was not going back to Washington alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pash reported to General Groves’s office in Washington, D.C., suggesting that the “subject still is or may be connected with the Communist Party.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I face Ms. Washington, standing in front of the whiteboard, and when she sees me look her way, she glances at Zoey and then crosses her hands over her chest, hunches her shoulders, and smiles. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And Roger, heading to Eastern Washington University on a football scholarship, had willed his basketball uniform to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The silver prow of their shell immediately surged a quarter length ahead of Washington’s. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Boston is a terrible confusion- first the King’s army, and now Washington’s.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington’s successor would inherit “a devilish load...and be very apt to stagger and stumble.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But not before over one hundred marchers had to be taken to Washington’s Emergency Hospital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Temporarily though, they put me on “The Colonial” that ran to Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They integrated their bus and traveled from Washington, D.C., through the deep South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“G-Wiz. He’s this weird blue alien thing for the Washington Wizards. He looks like Cookie Monster on drugs.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In 1794, Washington had sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate a realistic bargain that avoided a war with England at a time when the United States was ill prepared to fight one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth thought about this while she watched Paganini nibble on a stack of books and George Washington groom his ears. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Also in 1870, Victoria Woodhull moved to Washington, DC, and began working as a lobbyist for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He drove his boys hard, but he wasn’t about to let a boatload of them drown in the middle of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After Washington listened to the unanimous advice of all his cabinet officers and reluctantly agreed to serve a second term, he tucked away Madison s draft for another day. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The US Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the White House. Did you know that plans for a monument started before Washington was elected president?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In which George Washington learns a valuable lesson in spying. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible for Washington to close the gap. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just as the bailiff came into the hall to call them to the courtroom, Mr. Washington turned the corner and strode toward them, smiling. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had met him six years earlier, as a senator, when Mandela had visited Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then Washington began to overtake California, methodically, seat by seat, the boys still rowing at a remarkably low thirty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had crossed the icy Delaware River in scores of boats that Washington had hidden away. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his adolescence in the same Washington, D.C., suburbs as McCandless and found them every bit as stifling. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eifler flew to Washington, wondering what he could possibly do so far from the action. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving in Washington with the same sort of desire and energy to contribute, though, she’d been roundly spurned, pilloried for taking on a policy role in the White House’s work on health-care reform. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This was the family of Washington Duke: the elder Duke, his three sons—Brodie, Benjamin, and James—and daughter, Mary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Principal Peattie was waiting for me when I came into Washington Irving Junior High School. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though being smart was an asset, Claudette soon found that having light skin and straight hair was the surest key to popularity at Booker T. Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Something slightly different about one of the Reston proteins is probably the reason the virus didn’t go off in Washington like a bonfire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the possibilities for a huge break of Ebola around Washington were impressive when you thought about it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For their preliminary, the boys from Washington were assigned to race against France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, and the crew they were most concerned about, Great Britain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He ran down the gravel to the main road and then started running west away from Washington and Millsburg—and the old Perkins place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Oshiro didn’t know what was in the bags, but the CIA sent the intelligence gathered from all the remote camps to Washington, DC, for Nixon’s bombing campaign in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She sent whatever she and other family members learned to her son Lieutenant Charles Darragh, who was in Washington’s army at Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington was not satisfied with the result but decided to let the matter drop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the next two days, Washington, DC, hummed with workshops, speeches, and ceremonies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After declaring his irreversible intention to retire, Washington devoted several paragraphs to the need for national unity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One man rose and shouted, “God Almighty has spoken from Washington, D.C.!” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Grace is on the other side of Zoey, and Ms. Washington’s on the other side of Grace. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But Tallmadge did not tell Washington the names of the agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A battle raged between two titans: the professor Booker T. Washington and the brilliant, mercurial, and quarrelsome W. E. B. Du Bois. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest ones had been here before George Washington was born, before the Mayflower sailed, when the only people here were Native Americans quietly hunting and fishing among the trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Hoover himself had interviewed her in Washington, not once, but twice, and he arranged for a government expert on “mental diseases” to evaluate her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Our trip to Washington and Riley’s speech made the kids feel almost anything was possible, but the idea of going to college is completely foreign for a lot of my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re breathing, so you have to keep going, even when it doesn’t feel like you’re still alive. Speaking of which, care to accompany me down to Washington Park?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The author was a white writer and schoolteacher, formerly from Washington, D.C., named Nick Jans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get them settled as quickly and comfortably as possible, which meant nailing down the details of our move and finding them a new school in Washington, a place where they’d be happy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By then she had retired from the concert stage, following a farewell tour that began with a sold-out concert in Washington’s Constitution Hall, where she had once been barred from singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about when you were a little girl in Washington, P.A.,” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Lord’s going to bless that boy, you mark my words,” said Praying Mother Washington. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That night Oppenheimer went to a party in one of the men’s dorms, carrying in his hand a message from Washington with more details on the destruction in Hiroshima. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington believed that the French were building a fleet of canoes “to convey their Forces down in the Spring.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington was thrown into the swift-moving water and saved himself by grabbing a log torn from the raft. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington opposed the scheme on several grounds, but confided his deepest reasons to Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tried to imagine protesting in Selma, the March on Washington. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only serious contender for primacy was Benjamin Franklin, but just before his death in 1790, Franklin himself acknowledged Washington’s supremacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The precedent he was setting may have seemed uplifting in retrospect, but at the time the glaring and painful reality was that the United States without Washington was itself unprecedented. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington wanted Howe to think that Gates’s army was heading for Philadelphia, which meant Howe had to keep his Redcoats in that city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen miles southeast of Washington, John Lloyd, the proprietor of Surratt’s tavern, went to bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

CUT TO: Stuart portrait of George Washington on right wall. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother went to Washington over the weekend and parked her beast in my apartment. It’s really quite sweet. But such nasty habits. Do you have a dog?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When George began to watch the Washington oarsmen on the water, he quickly spotted inefficiencies and deficiencies in the mechanics of their stroke that no amount of fiddling with a skeleton could fix. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The house belongs to a woman whose children went to Washington, D.C., and sent her the money to build it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One night at supper I tried to imagine what people in Washington, P.A., talked about at the end of the day. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their house looks like a smaller version of the White House in Washington, D.C., without so many pillars in front and not nearly so tall and wide. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Washington remained out in front, their lead—almost two lengths now—essentially undiminished. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He picked up the picture of the Washingtons and leaned it on his stomach to get a better look at it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Washingtons lived here a long time ago,” she said, tracing the edge of the paper. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He put out his hand, and after a moment’s hesitation Sticky Washington came and shook it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The British had set up a new camp in Brooklyn on Long Island, and Washington was moving his troops around like pieces on a checkerboard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington designed his intelligence system so that he could run his own agents, as he had run Honeyman. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massive publicity now gently hinted that the “big ten” would “supervise” the March on Washington’s “mood,” and its “direction.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surveyor at work: Teenager George Washington holds a surveying tool while a helper lets out distance-measuring chain and a slave looks on. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a message sent under a flag of truce, Washington told British General Henry Clinton, in New York, that he would spare André’s life if Clinton turned over Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the halfway mark, the New York Athletic Club suddenly began to fade and quickly fell away behind Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if she sings from the top of the Washington Monument,” the president told Ickes, “as long as she sings.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

C-Cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Senate is in session, and she meets her senators from Washington, who invite Annabelle to the State of the Union address in February. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On July 30, he sent the fruits of his labors to Washington, who found the Hamilton draft “exceedingly just, & just such as ought to be inculcated.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy told me how he had traveled to Washington in 1888 to join a new organization of gentlemen who called themselves the National Geographic Society. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

On Monday afternoon, not long after arriving—exhausted—in Washington, Marti Peterson was due for a debriefing with Admiral Stansfield Turner, the director of Central Intelligence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom Riders stood out among the crowd, trying to bring an end to segregation between whites and blacks by traveling from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was thirty years old when she joined Washington’s staff in 1987, at the start of his second term. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the Federalists whom Adams chose for his cabinet—he retained Washington’s advisers, his biggest blunder—had threatened to resign en masse if Adams tried to implement his bipartisan strategy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lafayette Baker takes the overnight train to Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here were two artists, one black and one Puerto Rican, standing beneath a 115-year-old chandelier, bracketed by towering antique portraits of George and Martha Washington, singing about feeling “at home in this nation we’ve made.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next day, Washington and his party went on to Ipswich. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I was late to school this morning because we had just come home from Washington, D.C., very late at night and I wanted to tell my mom everything we had done. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had taken Booth ten days to travel from Washington to the Port Conway ferry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wicked curveball attracted the major- league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Barack’s election, I was able to persuade her to move to Washington and work with me as a personal aide and wardrobe stylist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Three months later, a six foot, two-hundred-fifty-pound army colonel named Leslie Groves was walking down the hallway of a congressional office building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, fine, George Washington, you can teach me that stinky Morse code.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Given that he also knew many officials in Washington, he was considered an ideal messenger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ever so slowly, Washington began to claw its way back, inch by inch, still keeping the rate low but starting to gain on sheer power. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

First I wish to attend Tuskegee College but I do not wish to be a man like Booker Washington or Doctor Carver. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Ophie and her mother traveled from Atlanta to Washington, DC, on the Birmingham Special, Pennsy enfolding the wounded pair in the embrace of her passenger car seats, the dead took notice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They had life-size Lego statues of George Washington, Batman and a Black pirate with a green bird on his shoulder. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They wanted Booth alive so they could bring him back to Washington as a prize for Edwin Stanton. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the order to provide information of illegal activities, from the Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C., Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After two days with the Pentagon Papers, Sheehan returned to D.C. and showed his notes to Max Frankel, the Times's Washington bureau chief. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lafayette Baker, the notorious detective and War Department agent—and a favorite of Stanton’s—had been in Washington since April 16. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He solicited an emergency meeting in Washington with Warren Weaver, refusing to divulge the subject in advance but offering to arrange government clearance for Weaver if he desired a full discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Arnold wrote Washington and threatened that if André were hanged, Arnold would “retaliate on such unhappy Persons of your Army as may fall within my Power.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Year after year, the National Woman Suffrage Association held its annual convention in Washington, DC, so that its members could lobby legislators. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The evening of Saturday, July 19, 1919, was terribly hot in Washington, DC, and the city was filled with hordes of sailors and soldiers enjoying weekend passes, having just returned from the battlefields of Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In many places militia members far outnumbered soldiers in the professional Continental Army led by George Washington. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of my father and his parents, my mother and her parents, each family’s respective lineage and history of participation in social movements—Garvey on one side and Booker T. Washington on the other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we do not deceive our own men,” Washington later wrote, “we will never deceive the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered lush and lovely eastern Washington very well and the noble Columbia River, which left its mark on Lewis and Clark. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like nearly every other crew coach in the country, Ebright was by the late 1920s buying almost all his equipment from Pocock, who ran an independent business from his shop in the Washington shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow the message had gone out to all the teachers that the last two weeks of school were the last opportunity to bury the students of Washington Irving Junior High in work. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Word about their location is already flying around Washington, and bundles of congratulatory messages and flowers soon flood the desk and bedroom. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Washington settled in at thirty but held its position at a quarter length back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By four thirty that morning, they were stumbling through central Berlin, singing “Bow Down to Washington,” their arms draped over one another’s shoulders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The White House, with a fanfare of international publicity, “approved,” “endorsed,” and “welcomed” a March on Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She soon found that attitudes at Booker T. Washington had hardened against her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get on the first flight to Washington, DC, and storm the Capitol. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At nine in the morning, there was nothing more than a light chop on Lake Washington, a typical gray, late fall day with light winds out of the southeast at perhaps five miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had begun his activist career as a follower of Du Bois, fighting to integrate interstate buses, and had ended up toiling in the fields of black enterprise, Booker T. Washington’s domain. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry Truman strode through the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., dressed in his usual gray suit and bow tie. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In geology class, the teacher, Mr. Dodge, was talking about the petrified wood forests near George, Washington, on the Columbia River, and how it was pretty amazing that wood could turn into rock. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lining up for the opening of the suffrage procession in Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although there is no direct link between this incident and spymaster Washington at that time, later in the war he would often use such tricks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In social studies, while we were drawing latitude/longitude maps, I opened my notebook and stared at the photo inside—my friend Annabeth on vacation in Washington, D.C. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day in the summer of 1925, Tom White, the special agent in charge of the Bureau of Investigation’s field office in Houston, received an urgent order from headquarters in Washington, D.C. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Barack and I were excited to stay in Washington but would build a legacy on the South Side of Chicago, which would become home to the Obama Presidential Center. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My mother hadn’t wanted to come with us to Washington, but I’d forced the issue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His body’s going to Washington, to the Arlington Cemetery, and I reckon Myrlie real proud a that. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My teacher Ms. Washington’s actually the one who got Grace interested in theater in the first place. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Someone in one of the following boats shouted, “Washington by a foot!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even if General Washington was elsewhere, here I could find an officer who would understand the value of the list. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if there were an American pantheon, only Washington would have had a more secure place in it than Franklin. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the float in front of Washington’s shell house, Evanda May Calimar, the crew’s cook, waved a frying pan over her head, whooping and urging the boys on. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sadly, lies will often drown out the truth,” Ms. Washington says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Every soldier in New York was marching up island to attend the hanging of Thomas Hickey, the man who almost assassinated General George Washington. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and two other pilots traveled from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, flying in a special long-distance plane designed by Andrey Tupolev. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Washington administration gave the appearance of wanting to treat tribal nations fairly, but its actions spoke otherwise. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He turned into Washington Park and pulled the car slowly round and round the long gradual curves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of a mass of blacks marching on Washington was originally the brainchild of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ A. Philip Randolph. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stayed more or less afloat, but the outcome was the worst defeat in Washington’s history. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All the bombs explode within approximately ninety minutes of one another, rocking some of the biggest urban areas in America, including New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This would be the first time they rowed on a river rather than a lake, the first time, in fact, that they rowed anywhere other than Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We timed ourselves often: “WethepeopleoftheUnitedStatesinordertoformamore- perfect union ...” I had memorized the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Roosevelt in chronological as well as alphabetical order. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the boys knew that his name was George Pocock and that he built racing shells in the loft of their shell house, not just for Washington, but for rowing programs across the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bagdikian headed to the airport for an early flight to Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty years earlier, at the request of Chicago’s South Park commissioners, Olmsted had studied both Jackson Park and, to its west, Washington Park, and the broad boulevard that connected them, called Midway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

During the war for settler independence from Britain, the Ulster Scots were in the forefront of the struggle and formed the backbone of George Washington’s fighting forces. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This is why people from Texas hate Washington elites. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When her brothers left Washington for Williams College two weeks earlier, they expected their father to regain his health in Elberon. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Washington ordered Major “Light Horse Harry” Lee to take charge of what today would be called a special operation: the kidnapping of Benedict Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington chose Major Benjamin Tallmadge, who had been a close friend of Nathan Hale and, like him, had taught school in Connecticut. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, I visited Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Booker T. Washington High, whose sports teams were known as the Yellow Jackets, was one of Montgomery’s two public high schools for black students, the other being George Washington Carver High. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Washington also rejected this request, explaining that Andre, regardless of his personal attractiveness, was no more and no less than a spy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Bluesmen said Cool Papa and Clayton could find them either here or there, but they would most likely be in Washington Square Park for the next two or three weeks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

If Joe graduated from a school as highly regarded as Roosevelt, Fred said, he just might be able to get into the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The only feature was the dark green block of Washington Square Park, sporadically lit by lightning flashes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mary told Booth that she was riding out that afternoon to her country tavern in Surrattsville, Maryland, several miles south of Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also found the Washington Post story I wrote about Shin, which quoted him saying he would like to have a girlfriend, but didn’t know how to find one. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lacking a coach’s launch, he ran up and down the shores of Lake Washington, yelling at his boys through his megaphone, freely mixing baseball slang with rowing terminology and a wide variety of exuberant profanity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His parents had gone on a long trip and left him in Washington, D.C., with a relative. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And within months of her starting the job, tragedy struck: Harold Washington abruptly had a heart attack and died at his desk, thirty minutes after holding a press conference about low-income housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the box, the Lincolns were enjoying themselves, not because of the play, but simply from being together, out of the White House, during their happiest week in Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinton planned to strike the French before Washington even knew about the landing. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice heard from many of Coach Washington’s students—some as far away as California. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

An Osage delegation, including the chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah, was urgently dispatched to Washington, D.C., to petition the commissioner of Indian Affairs to abolish the ration system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The local city library’s collection of African-American books was limited to a few dog-eared copies of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery and a few other equally innocuous works. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

More alarmed than ever, Washington’s black citizens began to retaliate. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were all over the place: Boston; Washington, D.C.; Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A small wooden sign hung on the outside of the fence: The Enoch Washington Memorial Tennis Courts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The guardians of institutional America in Washington were able to ignore the need for fundamental social changes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had set up a classroom on the air force base, a cooperative venture with George Washington University, presumably available to all employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But he has seen the military results of maneuvering by armchair commanders Halleck and Stanton, and he insists that the Army cannot be commanded from Washington, that he cannot accept command without a free hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could even take a job in Washington or Baltimore if I wanted to. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were away, Washington leapt out to an early lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the same vein, a fierce debate raged between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I never signed Washington Irving’s name to any letters,” Milo declared. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mount Washington is the most popular summit in the White Mountains, and the Tuckerman Ravine Trail, our chosen route, is the most popular trail up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Crushed by the fall of Richmond, the former rebel capital, John Wilkes Booth left New York City on April 8 and returned to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year at Christmas, Mr. Washington always made sure that Angel and Gerald had something special under their tree. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mission now clarified, the two Berkeley scientists emplaned for Washington at three-thirty that morning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He talked with a friend from down the hall, a fellow physics student who had also been recruited by the mysterious man from Washington. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since both my mother’s and father’s families had helped to settle Washington County, I was interested to know how they and other pioneers had fared. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diplomats traveling from New York to Washington along Route 40 were often rejected if they stopped for a meal at restaurants in Maryland. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

On the morning of July 6, 1865, the clock began ticking on one of the most dramatic events in the history of Washington, the climactic event of the manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington, however, who was sitting in the front seat next to the driver, had his feet on the dashboard. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On May 15, 1796, Washington sent Hamilton the first draft” of a retirement address—no amount of persuasion could change his mind this time—that would announce his departure from public life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He sits up and reads from his phone, ‘“Vancouver, Washington, police manhandle black teen at house party.’” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As they began to approach the finish line, the Winged Footers made a move, sprinting past Princeton and challenging Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Hello. You what? You need me to come in? But I’m off today. I’m supposed to be in Washington.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Rob’s family was always laughing about something—even Mr. Washington’s mistakes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morris was lending this house to George and Martha Washington and had moved himself into another, larger one he owned just up the block. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Washington freshmen paddled over to the California boat and collected the traditional trophy of victorious crews everywhere—the shirts off the backs of their vanquished rivals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To the east, straight through those hills packed with evergreens, is her destination for the day: Preston, Washington. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There had been other disturbances earlier that summer, in South Carolina, Texas, and Washington, D.C. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But while Washington attempted to transcend the ideological wars of the 1790s, Burr seemed disposed to tunnel beneath the warring camps, then pop up on the side promising him the bigger tribute. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This latter point was extremely important to Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington preferred agents who “live with the other side; whose local circumstances, without subjecting them to suspicions, give them an opportunity of making observations.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Washington was an officer in the Virginia militia, the small army that Dinwiddie controlled in the king’s name. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every particular detail of these operations was known and approved by the highest authorities in Washington.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Two weeks into his work at Grand Coulee, Joe discovered that among the many college boys who had converged on Grand Coulee seeking work that summer there were two from the Washington shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since the 1980s, Gottman has brought more than three thousand married couples—just like Bill and Sue—into that small room in his “love lab” near the University of Washington campus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It is critical to note that Washington's crusade took place against a backdrop of terror and intimidation in which the genocide of black people in America appeared a very real possibility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Dinah Washington was leaving with some friends, I overheard someone say she was on her way to the Savoy Ballroom where Lionel Hampton was appearing that night—she was then Hamp’s vocalist. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Comfortable outfits for sightseeing in Washington. Spending money for souvenirs. Sunglasses. Camera.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Others propose we send sections of Washington’s corpse to Charleston, Philadelphia, and Boston. They want to keep the fourth bit here, to be displayed in front of City Hall.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a half mile, Washington continued to lead by about the same margin, with Syracuse just behind them and the midshipmen of Navy, on their outside, just a few feet behind Syracuse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Is there anyone else we can talk to about the Washingtons?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After reading an article describing the nutritional intake of the University of Washington crew team, Smith made sure the horse received feed with a high calcium content. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought seven postcards with different pictures—the Brooklyn Bridge, Washington Square, the fish market—imagining which one she might send to Jackson. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s best described as a ‘pilots airplane,’ ” said an American military official in a front-page article in the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It is true that a lively fear of Russian intentions and capabilities had settled upon Washington, fueling the expectation that war with the Soviet Union was inevitable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The United States. I campaigned for her. She was a lawyer in Washington, and I thought she had a lot of sense.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They are home for the weekend, Stuart told me earlier, their first since they moved to Washington. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With the reason he had not remembered to ask if Leslie could go with them to Washington today. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Like many American cities during the 1930s, Washington, D.C., with its large black population, was still segregated along racial lines. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There I became friendly with a handful of union reps, including Rick Kingsley, of Washington Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Comstock, New York. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington settled in at a relatively low beat of thirty-two but stayed close. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To Clinton, this was proof that Washington was establishing a base camp for his assault on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder why they chose the noon flight. That will get you into Washington around two. The competition starts at seven. That’s cutting it a little close.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Our school’s entire set of encyclopedias only had two articles about blacks—Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I think about standing in the middle of Ms. Washington’s class telling everyone about Glenn Burke, and how ever since—despite all that’s happened—how I’ve never felt more authentic. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Returning to Washington to begin our final year in the White House, we knew the clock was ticking now in earnest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most of them were former criminal defense lawyers from Washington who had come to Georgia in response to a growing crisis: Death row prisoners couldn't get lawyers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rick Kingsley, back when he was showing me around the Washington Correctional Facility, had remembered Sing Sing as the worst nine months of his life, his stint in Vietnam included. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chickens promptly die after eating some peas that had been rejected by George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seattle reporters marveled at how sun-bronzed they looked when seen side by side with the pallid boys from Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Champe became a deserter again—this time a real deserter—and found his way to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Predictably, the sight of Washington leaving office attracted the bulk of the commentary in the press. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Products of Berlin’s Viking Rowing Club, where they rowed as the Glider crew, they seemed, on average, to be a bit older than the Washington boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She saw how pumped I was yesterday when Ms. Washington told me I’d be up second this afternoon. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The French aid had been a major reason why Washington was able to surround and force General Charles Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown in 1781. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for Harvey, a new employer in Washington was looking for recruits. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ames looked around his Washington, DC, suburb and felt envious of his wealthy neighbors enjoying the booming US economy of the 1980s. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The headline read: a professor’s final course: his own death The article caught the eye of a producer from the “Night- line” show, who brought it to Koppel in Washington, D.C. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington remained four full lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In which Washington proves to be a master of deception, and help comes from a surprising source. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys now had open water between them and the California Clipper, and in the last half mile they accelerated in a way that no shell had ever accelerated on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, Washington learned that California’s coach, Ben Wallis, was leaving Berkeley and that the school was on the verge of abandoning its crew program after years of less than stellar results. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ernest had been at the Balboa house trying to steal a few days of rest when the invitation to Geneva arrived from Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“San Francisco’s so expensive. If we lived in Washington, we could find our own place and save up for your college fund.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Mulligan thereafter called himself “Clothier to Genl. Washington,” but the tailor did not advertise his other service to the general. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith urged Howard to pass on the entry in the Washington Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, D.C., a panel of scientists—including Robert Oppenheimer—analyzed the results. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee told no one about the mission that Washington had entrusted to Champe. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last mile, the Washington boat lengthened its lead a bit more with each stroke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Surely if anyone deserved to spend his remaining years relaxing under his “vine and fig tree,” it was Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington took charge of the rebel army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1775. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Washington became the quasi-monarchical president who could be trusted, Adams became the closet monarchist who could not. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But they’ll be on his back from Washington, wires hot with messages: attack, attack. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slaves everywhere knew what happened in Washington, Boston, New York, Norfolk, Baltimore, if it dealt with the subject of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all this effort to placate the American government, however, pressure for fundamental change continued from Washington. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally challenged in the classroom and on the water, he excelled in both areas, and when he graduated in 1926, Washington quickly hired him as the freshman crew coach, and then as head coach. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt couldn’t wait to talk to the boys from Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They left that same day, on the three o’clock train, bound for a new life in Washington. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As I follow my brother into the main room, I’m puzzling over how Mr. Washburn could have gotten here all the way from Washington to deport us when the grocery store incident just happened? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was here in Washington that I saw it first. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an additional precaution, he made a happy switch from Washington Irving to John Milton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Washington Daily reported that “despite the intense cold, the shell house radiated more fire and spirit last night than has been the case for many a year.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Word of his generosity quickly got around, which inspired other philanthropists—unwilling to be outdone—to send even more money; and before long people everywhere were sending gifts to the Washingtons, who were growing rich. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be Washington, Cornell, or California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington never revealed Mulligan’s achievements, but some historians say the tailor exposed two plots to kill Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lavish, loose-living owner of the Washington Post, McLean was a buddy of both President Harding and the secretary of the interior. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The group also requested “an audience for not more than two minutes in Washington as soon after your arrival as possible.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He knows Washington’s back alleys and shortcuts and will guide Powell, who knows little about the city, to safety. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had never served as a governor, as Jefferson had, or as a military commander, as Washington had. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, while many US history books depict George Washington as a heroic Founding Father and a surveyor too, Indigenous peoples do not think of him that way. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, in Baltimore—or Washington. But even there, they’d just have to put these creatures to sleep.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t even work in Maryland; they have to commute to Washington, DC. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His unrelenting disparagement of Los Alamos had made inroads at the AEC, forcing Bradbury to shuttle to Washington to defend his team. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The date stamps indicate when the telegram was received in Washington and sent to the appropriate office. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After a pleasant week at the New Jersey shore with Lucretia and his family and friends, James Garfield returned to Washington on Monday, June 27, leaving Lucretia and the children in Elberon. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking a winning team to Washington, D.C., this year, class. Are you with me?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The present building was designed in the late nineteenth century by the same Philadelphia architect whom Washington Duke had hired to build the Main Building at Trinity College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly a decade, Jefferson and Washington had corresponded about making navigation improvements in the Potomac on the presumption that it afforded a direct link between the vast American interior and the Chesapeake Bay. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Among them was a paper showing that Gates was sending 8,000 men to help Washington capture Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie played behind the life-size George Washington statue in the corner, reenacting the crossing of the Delaware. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He introduced himself as a physics professor who now worked for the government in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in Washington would the fact that it was raining buckets have no bearing at all on the playing of outdoor sports. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He and Rebecca married and he took a low-pressure job at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Back home in Washington, news of the terrible crash was spreading. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“What about a connecting flight? We must get her to Washington this afternoon!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Kamen had struggled to remake his career, survived a suicide attempt, and finally succeeded in gaining a high-level faculty appointment at Washington University in St. Louis, thanks to Arthur Compton, its chancellor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This farm was living and thriving today just 150 miles from Washington, D.C. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Approaching the bend in the course, Washington slowly nosed out ahead of the California boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington had suffered from dental problems for many years and eventually had all of his teeth pulled. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all the advantages of hindsight, Jefferson’s strategic assessment of 1796 appears more and more prescient: Whoever followed Washington was probably doomed to failure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

What Clinton did not know was that Gray was a double agent whose information came directly from Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman left him with a grateful nod, then fell back in with the crowd making its way across the George Washington Bridge, the massive suspension bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They liked to do exactly what the Washington boys did so well. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

While Washington worried, the city’s taverns, beer gardens, and coffeehouses—all 176 of them—were teeming with activity that Saturday. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

California and Washington careened into the last five hundred yards, storming down the corridor of open water between the spectators’ boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had some business in the Washington, D.C., area, and we met for coffee. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She whispered to Brave Orchid that the reason the family must not go out was that “they” would take us in airplanes and fly us to Washington, D.C., where they’d turn us into ashes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me about the great Roosevelt in Washington and the great De Valera in Dublin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The wide avenues of Torrance were drawn up a century ago by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., who helped design the Mall in Washington. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The federal troops in Mississippi could be better used guarding the safety of the citizens of Washington, D.C., where it is even unsafe to walk or go to a ballgame-and that is the nation's capitol. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would end up staying with us in Washington for the next eight years, but at the time she claimed the move was temporary, that she’d stay only until the girls got settled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He now knew that the American public had very little idea of how decisions were really made in Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Washington sent American troops under the command of the Marquis de Lafayette to get Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wayne Washington quoted me in the final paragraph: “‘They used us to get money,’ she said of the Mosses. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Right behind Moch came the rest of the Washington boys, and behind them, just for the hell of it, the entire Australian team. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One day—it was the day after the C.I.D. man’s first visit—Major Major signed Washington Irving’s name to one of the documents instead of his own, just to see how it would feel. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washington replied in his deep, cheerful voice, “I figured you might need another hand to hold. Hi there, Angel.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood there singing I thought about how in Washington, D.C., we did the exact same thing for almost the same purpose. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As in 1934, at 1:00 p.m. a ferry—this year the MV Chippewa—departed the University of Washington’s Oceanographic Dock with a full load of students and the school’s marching band. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Chip told them more about the Washingtons, and the night of the tennis match, and even shared secrets about his father’s heritage. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After Washington, Lawrence and Alvarez planned to fly to Ottawa for a look at the Canadian government’s heavy-water reactor in nearby Chalk River, a design they thought might be adapted for tritium production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Out on the city streets of Washington, DC, Vietnam veterans were arriving by car, bus, plane, and even on foot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He sent most of his men across to face the British and others north to defend Fort Washington and Harlem. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought Howe a stack of documents—some written by Washington just for the deception. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty years, over the entire life span of the revolutionary war and the experiment with republican government, Washington had stood at the helm of the ship of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Maryland has been declared one of the safest states, on account of our work patrols and the very active militia, with Washington, DC, being nearby. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Who decided that for Henry Reed to become a scientist he had to work like George Washington Carver, as a bootblack, to buy a lousy microscope? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body was transferred from the wagon to a rowboat, then to a steamboat, which would then take them north to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington’s days as a volunteer at her church did more for Lambert’s children than most people will ever know. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln and his family went to a cottage in northern Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even President Washington learned a valuable lesson as a result of his encounter with yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“But how do we get ready for Washington?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, Army Major General Halleck made plans to imprison the assassins when they were caught. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington boat leapt forward, the California boat hesitated for a moment, and Washington crossed the line a little more than a second ahead of California, with a new course record at 16:33.4. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Liddy and Hunt soon learned that Daniel Ellsberg was scheduled to come to Washington in September to accept an award from a peace organization. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After returning from Vietnam, he’d moved to Washington, DC, and enrolled in junior college. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The British took it badly and burned down the White House which caused First Lady Dolley Madison to save the famous portrait of George Washington. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The same is true of Townsend’s bunting, of which there is one stuffed specimen in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were alive when George Washington was president. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its source was Merle Tuve, whom Lawrence had visited in Washington on his way home from Europe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“As you all know,” Jenny continued, “the cast of Washington! needs two more dogs.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But there were days when the wind ripped up the surface of Lake Washington so badly that nobody could row on it without being swamped. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Conibear—who would come to be called the father of Washington rowing—had become Washington’s coach because nobody else was available to take the job, not because he knew the first thing about rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He also denied any association with Guiteau other than seeing him on many occasions at New York City's Republican headquarters and a few times on Washington's streets. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After receiving a standing ovation for a speech at Washington University in St. Louis advocating a test ban, Pauling launched a petition drive among scientists calling for an immediate international halt to all nuclear testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m Zoe Washington,” I said as I fumbled through my backpack and yanked my journal out of it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Almost nobody even noticed the Washington shell apparently limping along out in the middle of the river, so far back one could barely see it in the gathering darkness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A level below the surface, he, much like Adams, was preoccupied with the long shadow of George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ben had received his training on the outdoor courts near Washington, D.C. when his father had been stationed at the Pentagon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her letters were all sent to the same address in Indianola, Washington. The postcards, too.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Howe fell for the deception long enough for Washington to dig in at Whitemarsh and for Major Clark to train his agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, whites had been astounded that blacks had dared to fight back. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

That plane, American Airlines Flight 77, left Washington Dulles this morning en route to Los Angeles but was apparently hijacked and turned back to complete its deadly mission. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Washington...is anything but a happy place for me to be right now,” she wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Why is Gray in New York and not Washington?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That reality helps to explain why African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington urged blacks to focus on improving themselves rather than on challenging racial discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The pleasant voice of the answering machine that never had to feel sorrow or pain answered cheerfully, “You have reached the Washington residence. Please leave your number, and have a nice day!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A legend in his own time, Americans had been describing Washington as “the Father of the Country” since 1776—which is to say, before there was even a country. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Booth decided it was better to die than be taken back to Washington to face justice. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plot to kill Washington had been uncovered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington, knocked asunder, reeled and brayed, “I say,” seizing the King’s soldier by the arm and struggling with him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Yet once they were settled into their new life in Washington, far away from Fabyan, there was no longer any reason to delay. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On January 9, Nixon’s sixtieth birthday, Kissinger cabled the news to Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That Washington was a conjure man, for sure. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the beginning of the war, the building that Lincoln considers the most important in Washington glows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“In two weeks the winner of this competition will travel to Washington, D.C., to represent our area at the national championships.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had never even been to Washington before, but he hoped she wouldn’t ask him that. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the day before she planned to take them all over to Millsburg Plaza for new clothes, his dad came home from Washington early. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

That was the signal that Washington and his party were passing there. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he got back to Washington on June 20, the Watergate story no longer seemed funny. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The original “angry” March on Washington was now about to be entirely changed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An idea of what the city must have smelled like during its hot and humid summers is suggested by the goings- on at Giesboro Point Cavalry Depot, just south of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We took Katz to National Airport in Washington, where he was booked on a late afternoon flight to Des Moines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Handcuffs, machine guns, and so forth. The sirens scream loudly when we ride through Washington. You know what I think of America but now my dream and ours has been destroyed." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Did corn somehow sneak into Washington and change the laws? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His dad, Ambassador Farland, has been recalled to Washington, D.C., because of the embargo. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He had run low on cash since arriving in Washington in March. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From countless trained and volunteer sources, including perhaps Lydia Darragh, Old Mom, and the egg seller, Washington got enough information to spoil the British plan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Loeb made the initial contact with Lawrence in Washington, Birge took over. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Private George Washington Buck, former sergeant, had a place to himself, wedged between two rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As intelligence gathering increased and improved, Tallmadge decided that his agents, along with Washington himself, needed secret identities. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if any of the writers assembled on the ramp that day harbored any doubt that Ky Ebright was taking the Washington threat seriously, those doubts were put to rest directly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When news of the discovery of the abandoned riding boot makes its way back to Washington, Baker concludes that Booth cannot be traveling on horseback. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he really was Washington Irving, and perhaps he really had been signing Washington Irving’s name to those letters he knew nothing about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Washington clasps her hands in her lap again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s own sister-in-law had moved to Washington to take a job in the War Department. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Exactly where Washington fit in this horrific picture is difficult to determine. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington knew that just the opposite would happen, because the farmer was a Tory who would quickly report the conversation to British officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the additional frightening possibility that this virus near Washington was not Ebola Zaire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the darkest of days in 1776, Washington had written, “There is one evil I dread, and that is, their spies.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now America waited to see if the rough-and- tumble western boys from Washington State would write another chapter in the story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you went back to using Washington?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the ground, Truth, fancied he found, And homeward to Washington skips. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By 1927 the Cal program had improved to the point that Berkeley could reasonably contend with Washington for West Coast supremacy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The experience of the hop growers in Washington and Idaho is an example. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon there, Mrs. Tate. Sorry to interrupt you, ma’am, but I got a telegram for Captain Tate. It’s from Washington.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A federal grand jury in Washington began what turned out to be a smoke-screen investigation accusing Fischer of money laundering after his match with Spassky in 1992. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cobb is required to challenge anyone entering or exiting Washington, but the truth is that, since the war is almost over, the formal restrictions on crossing the bridge after curfew have ended. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But to hell with this Booker T. Washington business. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left Washington wearing the equivalent of a modern-day business suit, unsuitable for camping out. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Japanese naval superiors had recently transferred the man to Washington, D.C., the informant said, to continue acting under their orders. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The only way out of Washington, D.C., is on a boat or over a bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had one not-so-pleasant visit from two Americans, editors of the conservative newspaper the Washington Times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys were rowing as if in a kind of trance now, somehow detached from themselves yet keenly aware of one another’s every minute motion. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In Washington, the White House released a statement that Truman had prepared ahead of time. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four such bodies were in existence already–in Hawaii, California, Alaska, and Washington–but oddly none in the largest volcanic zone in the world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now, on this first day of her long journey, she is running along Lake Washington Boulevard again, but this time on the east side of the lake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The scene at the outdoor chess tables in Washington Square Park was a mélange of urban vitality and color. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Meet you in every dream...Keep most of your heart in Washington...Miss you like a home...We two longing loves...My young king.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Small, new, and not well known, the Marshall Library was three hours from Washington, so it was not easy for Elizebeth and William to visit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For the next twenty-odd years, he did further analytic work in Washington. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And even if Washington somehow prevailed, the Olympic trials to follow in Princeton would reset the stage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone, Washington observed with consternation and annoyance, had “matters of private concernment which required them to be absent.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Typical coxswain abuse,” one Washington cox later said, laughing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The contrast with their own arrangements did not set well with the Washington boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington was all too familiar with the disease. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sixty-six days after he fell wounded onto the floor of the Baltimore and Potomac station, James Garfield would leave Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Take a minute to review the story the Washington Post broke this morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The case Madison had tried to make for the Potomac was simultaneously crafty and driven by romantic illusions about its prowess that were shared by Jefferson, Washington, and most members of the Virginia dynasty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In this manner they walked the endless blocks back to a parking garage on Washington Square, for Sanjeev had heard far too many stories about the terrible things that happened to cars in Manhattan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was studying politics this time and went to live with a friend in Washington, DC, for the summer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another of the young toughs lurched toward Lieutenant Washington, aiming to bring him down with an axe handle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’d called to ask me to be in some sort of private organization, a club that, from what I gathered, was made up primarily of the wives of important people in Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, Elizabeth would rendezvous with a Soviet agent in Washington by standing in front of a drugstore in Georgetown, wearing a red flower in her hat and holding a copy of Life magazine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately after the funeral, Lincoln’s body was escorted by a military guard through the streets of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Simply put, Washington had developed a view of both personal and national independence that was completely immune to sentimental attachments or fleeting ideological enthusiasms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I called Deborah around eight in the morning, saying I was leaving my home in Pittsburgh, and headed to the conference in Washington, D.C. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“President Nixon is confident in what we are doing,” Speigner told a reporter when he returned from Washington. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We consider George Washington a statesman because he spent tax money on widely admired programs and did not enrich himself as president. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The 1955 Washington Square tournament included sixty-six players of all different strengths and talents. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Lambert was “progressive” now, though, could her father say the same about the city when the Washingtons lived there, whoever they were? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While the Freedom Writers were standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1997, something magical occurred. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It took nearly an hour for the high-speed whirlybird to make it to Washington. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders, half-hysterically, if this is how it felt to charge into war under Washington. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he could do in Washington anyway. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Simultaneously, the movement’s center of gravity shifted to Washington, DC. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“A very great change has taken place in the climate of opinion” in Washington, he advised Conant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

California, rowing at thirty-eight, settled into third place, ten feet in front of Washington’s bow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center of everything. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Back in April, moments after his varsity boys had beaten California on Lake Washington, the Associated Press had put out a story that was picked up all over the country the next morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The great Delaware rolls on, while Mr. Washington himself is no longer even what you’d call good compost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope this is not going to be a photo in the Washington Post tomorrow, he was thinking. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They envisioned thousands of black brothers converging together upon Washington—to lie down in the streets, on airport runways, on government lawns— demanding of the Congress and the White House some concrete civil rights action. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When George Dasch woke up in the swanky Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, he tried not to worry. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When Major Washington heard about the royal orders to Dinwiddie, he rode into Williamsburg, sought out the governor, and volunteered for the mission. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’m thousands of feet in the air in a “Freedom Writer Only” plane, on my way home from Washington, D.C. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And when it came to Washington, I felt I owed them the truth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The letter was addressed to a Mr. T. Graham, in Indianola, Washington. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She herself had been in Washington for many years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Washington, If I stood on my head and stripped butt-naked in the middle of Fountain Square, screamin “I’m sorry!” as loud as I could, it still wouldn’t be enough. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Washington mewled and ran his claws along the side of a box of books, and Mama turned her wrath onto the cat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On June 15, boys scuffled in Washington Park, the large leafy park closest to both Packingtown and the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first was the Baltimore Plot, in 1861, in which a group known as the Knights of the Golden Circle planned to shoot Lincoln as he traveled to Washington for the inauguration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post, however, refused to participate in the press blackout. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There thousands of California fans dressed in blue and gold mingled on the span with hundreds of Washington loyalists in purple and gold, everyone jostling to get a good view of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Lin flew to Washington, DC, for a press conference to announce the winning design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“If your mother hadn’t moved to Washington, DC, for work, we’d probably still be in New York.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If Bagdikian could get his hands on the Pentagon Papers, would the Washington Post risk printing this same material? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Champe was “charmed with the plan,” which Washington himself had hatched: Pretend you are a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while the two of them entertained themselves finding places on the globe, but eventually they’d had enough of it, and Sticky Washington had yet to appear. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There, Washington, after getting all the information that Hewes had obtained, invited his agent to dinner. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could come watch me and Jill Biden paint a wall, for example, at a nondescript row house in the Northwest part of Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If I had entertained any suspicious before,” wrote Washington, the assurances you have given me of the contrary would have removed them; but the truth is, I harboured none.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The two little girls and I crossed the Delaware River where George Washington had crossed it, the next morning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly half a century ago, a professor of entomology at Washington State College, A. L. Melander, asked the now purely rhetorical question, “Can insects become resistant to sprays?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Chaplain,” he announced with magisterial rigidity, “we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men. Are you guilty or innocent?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Assuming a mountain 5,000 feet high with 500,000 million cubic feet of mass—roughly the size of Mount Washington—a single stream would level it in about 500 million years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was that Lovey had told the cabbie to drop us at the corner of Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We hit the Beltway around Washington, D.C., and roll down the windows. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tom Bolles, the freshman coach, was a former Washington oarsman himself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I remember the bus boycott, and the Freedom Riders, and all that. I remember the March on Washington, and I especially remember the ones down in Selma.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It looks astonishingly like the White House in photographs, but larger and living, and beyond that, there’s the familiar tip of the Washington Monument, looking astonishingly like the Washington Monument in the books. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I figured he was dug in with the troops at Fort Washington, which seemed a good place, what with the strong walls and the cannons protecting it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Washington Post editorial said, “We cannot afford any artificially induced mouse-men.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a large suite with windows looking out across the Potomac River to the Washington Monument and the Capitol dome. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In Washington, on the morning of April 19, the most solemn day in the history of the nation began with the president’s funeral. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stated that he was going to Washington, DC, on Thursday or Friday of this week, and would talk to Mr. Hoover or his secretary. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Zoey begins to clap, Ms. Washington joins in, and then so do a bunch of other kids. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine us when we get to Washington, P.A.?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rich man, himself a former quiz champion, heard of the case and gave a large sum of money to the Washingtons to aid their search. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a spymaster, Washington had to be especially watchful for what he called “double spies.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the outset, some in the Washington shell house felt that by agreeing to go to Cal, Ebright had betrayed the institution that had nurtured him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The city of Reston, Virginia, is a prosperous community about ten miles west of Washington, D.C., just beyond the Beltway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washington’s expression softens and he shakes his head, looking truly saddened. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Irish American through and through, Day had grown up just north of the Washington campus, in the area where the fraternities were located. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington wanted no last-minute changes smuggled in without his approval. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m Reynie Muldoon and this is Sticky Washington,” he said, shaking her hand and immediately regretting it—her grip was so strong it was like getting his fingers caught in a drawer. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew George Washington was a dog person? Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Long Telegram was copied, talked about, and passed all over Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the two men tramped through snow-covered woods, several “French Indians,” as Washington called them, suddenly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

American intelligence agents in Southeast Asia reported to Washington that a national election would almost certainly be won by Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Throughout the Farewell Address Washington had been exhorting Americans to think of themselves as a collective unit with a common destiny. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“No, Mr. Washington only found the reference to it. The licensing file also says that Mrs. Moss stated that she no longer allowed the children to taste her home-cooked hot sauce.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, all of Washington’s conservative message was immensely popular with whites, and not by coincidence, for his every public utterance was carefully crafted to appeal to two audiences. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When yellow fever returned to Philadelphia the next summer, Washington wasted no time in removing Martha, himself, and the rest of his household—along with his official papers!—to that safe location again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She promptly went back to school and earned three degrees in law from the Washington College of Law at American University. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ain’t nothing new on the big march coming up on Washington with the Reverend King. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It ended, again in a gesture of ostentatious moderation, with the unadorned signature: “G. Washington, United States.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A week at Balboa was interrupted by daily phone calls from Washington, New York, Los Alamos, and Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But it is a daunting task; the Washington Post has called voter suppression “the civil rights issue of this era.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Did Coach Washington have any hobbies? Any other sports besides tennis that he liked just as much?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Actually, the bookies in the cigar shops in Poughkeepsie had Cal and Washington at even money, with Cornell lagging just behind at eight to five. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the mile- and-a-half mark, Clark called for another big ten, but by now Cal’s boys had given everything they had to give, and Washington’s boys hadn’t. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Storch hated George Washington more than he hated the fleas that crawled around his curled white wig. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The California, Oregon, and Washington State kids weren’t pros, but they were definitely the best library-cart handlers in the building. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although Jackson tried frantically to rescue Washington, he and his friends watched helplessly as Robert Washington burned to death. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets back from Washington late today and if she finds out, it will finish this plan. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Without guards or army escort, despite the danger that might still lurk in Washington, Stanton and Welles rode in a carriage to Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But everyone could tell that Washington had fallen two lengths behind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The governor also gave Washington another mission: Get intelligence on the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We all feel like that sometimes. Are you excited about traveling to Washington, D.C.?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

George Washington, true to the intelligence rule of keeping bits of espionage in separate boxes, was aware of Franklin’s operations but usually did not deal directly with him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groves had one thing on his mind: getting out of Washington. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of all true wisdom concerning the Farewell Address is that Washington’s core insights were firmly grounded in the lessons he had learned as America’s premier military and civilian leader during the revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the secretary’s Lewis Powell after his capture, under , . . guard at the Washington Navy Yard. son Frederick Stands at the top of the stairs, blocking Powell’s path. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On July 4, 1942, while most Americans were celebrating Independence Day, the Nazi saboteurs were transferred to a jail in Washington, DC, under the custody of the army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

George Washington had been impatient since his departure from Philadelphia in early September. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii, a woman had been able to obtain a legal abortion for at least two years before Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The publication made Washington famous in London as well as in the Colonies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some 300 participants and organizers gathered in the ornate ballroom of the Washington Duke Hotel, the sixteen-story fading dowager of Durham’s glory days, to celebrate the completion of their work. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After journeying to Memphis and Boston, I went to Washington to address a joint session of Congress and attend a private meeting with President Bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cameramen began filming Nation of Islam scenes around our mosques in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the key pieces of the story is Washington’s use of deception. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s white and, see, he don’t know the difference because he’s from Seattle, Washington. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The article I read on my phone said the animals were coming down into Washington Heights and Harlem from Westchester, just north of New York City. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Parker pushed Siobhan Washington's wheelchair across the National Lawn in DC. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Geraldine, Louis, Junior, and the cat lived next to the playground of Washington Irving School. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even wait to get it all the way unwrapped from the curtains of George Washington’s cousin. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He became a partner of spymaster George Washington by serving as a covert operations manager. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first time anyone had ever seen Washington cry. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could get you assigned to Washington—assigned to me even— teach you your way about.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His thoughts were interrupted by Sticky’s nervous voice crying out: “Sticky Washington!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then they visited the Soldiers’ Home in Washington, a retirement home for old and disabled veterans. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The salary—$164,000 in today’s dollars—was vastly more than Washington could match, as university officials in Seattle immediately made clear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A small part of Leanne Washington wanted to believe her husband. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For there was President Washington—a tall, commanding man, riding horseback to enter the town. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington must have been angry about the mix-up. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick Douglass, the outspoken leader of the African-American community for several decades, had died only months before the Atlanta speech, leaving a vacuum that the ambitious Washington quickly filled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This was a photo in the video tribute to Coach Washington.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

George Washington lay sprawled on his back, lazily swatting the bunny as he zipped past. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Washingtons men had spent the dark night and foggy morning rowing all of the troops back to New York Island-some nine thousand men, folks said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

These officials were quite unable to recall situations where cooperation had not taken place “at the Washington level.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The gist of it was a simple, bold assertion—the University of Washington’s eight-oared crew was going to win gold at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What Washington and the others discovered was that, despite the surge in deaths on October 22, the fever did indeed seem to be losing strength. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Obviously, Washington’s spies liked to be paid in money that jingled. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was therefore well practiced in subordinating his own inclinations and style to Washington’s larger purposes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That summer, just before motoring across country to take up his new post, he stopped in Washington to see Merle Tuve. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Late in the summer of 1952,just two weeks before Claudette was to begin her freshman year at Booker T. Washington High School, her sister Delphine came down with a fever Sunday just before church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As the cabbie pulled up to the corner of Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, Lovey told him to go a little farther down Washington. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember at least four blocks of Washington Street. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The two fought for the hearts and minds of black America—and, at least for Washington, for the blessings of white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a former District politician, the fiery Moore had often been the subject of news stories in The Washington Post. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, the occupants of Mary Surratt’s boardinghouse prepared for bed, too. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The postwar joy means that Washington’s theatergoers are making merry on the streets, not inside a theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had also been an outstanding stroke on the Washington crew of his day and later chairman of the Board of Rowing Stewards at Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the gun, Washington charged out of the stall at a high beat of thirty- eight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

More laughter sounded from behind the windows of the house, where all the adults, including Miss Perumal and the Washingtons, sipped apple cider and watched the gleeful battle below. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, D.C., later that day, the president focused on next steps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Other double agents working for Washington were given the cover of “deserter.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In December 1776 Washington’s battered army, driven from New York, was scattered along the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington pulled abreast of Penn. But Bobby Moch still hadn’t really turned the boys loose. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The drafting and editing of the Farewell Address in effect became a metaphor for the kind of collective effort Washington was urging on the American people as a whole. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was 5 a.m. and on the phone was a detective telling her she should drive to Washington. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finding major Biosafety Level 4 agents on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., is not the kind of thing interns do every day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nose of the California boat had indeed passed under the bridge first, but by then the first six feet of the Washington boat was already well over the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys slid their seats forward, sank their white blades into the water, hunched over their oars, and stared straight ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shrill horns and cheers resounded all along the shores of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"We're chatting with Marcus Washington, from the US Postal Service. So, Mr. Washington, I understand the Ares 3 mission caused a postal service first. Can you explain that to our viewers?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Bois attacked Washington and his followers not only for abandoning politics but also for repeating demeaning stereotypes about blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then the Washington Post escalated the situation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

One way or the other, it was apparent that the coaching situation at Washington was suddenly uncertain, and that while Bolles’s star had suddenly ascended, Ulbrickson’s had fallen just as abruptly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Finally the boys from Washington emerged, looking sleepy, confused, and decidedly innocent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, then. We must look our best when we get a telegram from Washington.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Neither Washington nor Adams had ever played a direct role in their own campaigns for office. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She clicked through until she found the photo of Leanne Washington and the Women’s Missionary Circle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Washington had become the national champions and swept the Hudson. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On this night, with the Lincolns present, red, white, and blue bunting is draped over the railing and a portrait of George Washington faces out. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the election, I’d gone with Barack to Washington for a daylong orientation offered to newly elected senators and their spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was to have more than 10,000 magnets arranged in a loop 54 miles around, about the size of the beltway highway that circles Washington, D.C. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As Washington shrewdly noted, the invisible ink would not only make “communications less exposed to detection” but also would “relieve the fears” of agents carrying the innocent-looking messages. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, I knew, for instance, that just outside of Washington, D.C., there was a great enclave of black people who seemed, as much as anyone, to have seized control of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His powerful “I have a dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, won the admiration of people around the world. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not helping my hopefulness, George Washington. I’m going to bed.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z