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Shirer

American  
[shahyuhr-er] / ˈʃaɪər ər /

noun

  1. William Lawrence, 1904–1993, U.S. journalist, news broadcaster, and writer.


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State District Judge Ellen Shirer Kovach said that trial cannot be a murder trial.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2021

That was what was interesting from the William Shirer diaries . . . about his broadcast.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2020

Director Alex and his brother, Stephen Kendrick, who is one of the producers, and Priscilla Shirer, an actress and Bible teacher, sat down with "Fox & Friends" Tuesday to discuss the new flick.

From Fox News • Aug. 21, 2019

Shirer fumed, “My God! Here was the old continent on the brink of war…and the network was most reluctant to provide five minutes a day from here to report it.”

From The Guardian • May 22, 2019

I later looked to Gandhi and to William Shirer for answers.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot