Word: aarons
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Like most people who find their way to surrogate agencies, "Aaron" and "Mandy" (not their real names) had undergone years of treatment for infertility. Aaron, 36, a Yale-educated lawyer, and his advertising-executive wife, 30, had planned to have children soon after marrying in 1980. They bought a two-bedroom town house in Hoboken, N.J., in a neighborhood that Aaron describes as being "full of babies." But after three years of tests, it became painfully clear that there was little hope of having the child they longed for. They considered adoption, but were discouraged by the long waiting lists...
...Mark Aaron Zidzik...
Hoping to shorten the process, California Senator Aaron Sargent had introduced in 1878 an amendment to the Constitution: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ...on account of sex." After nine years of stalling, the Senate voted the measure down. Early in 1918, apparently because so many women had done so much war work, the amendment finally was passed by the House. In the galleries, a tearful crowd of suffragists started singing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The next year, the Senate added its grudging consent...
BASEBALL TEAMS' inherent inability-for long-range planning is Lee's biggest beef with their management. Specifically he hates the tendency to trade away fading but still useful players on the hopes that the young kid from the plains is the next incarnation of Hank Aaron. Protesting the dumping of friends like Bernie Carbo, Tim McCarver and Rodney Scott eventually got Lee kicked out of baseball but it still bugs the hell out of him. The worst was Carbo. Baseball fans the world over remember Carleton Fisk's body-English home run off the foul pole that won the sixth...
They may not dress alike, but undressed, Stacy and Tracy Bayne are an almost identical double exposure. Writer Aaron Latham did a double take when he spied the 22-year-old confessed aerobiholics working out in a California health club, and decided that they would be ideal for Perfect!, his new movie based on his Rolling Stone article "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." Latham, who turned an earlier story into Urban Cowboy, has once again lassoed John Travolta for the lead role as a reporter who works for a Rolling Stone editor, portrayed verisimilarly enough by Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner...