Word: arizonas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quayle's upbringing was almost as charmed as Bush's. Born in Indianapolis into the Pulliam publishing family, whose newspapers rank 18th in circulation nationwide and whose fortune is estimated at somewhere above $1 billion, Quayle moved to Arizona when his father took over public relations for part of the newspaper chain there. He developed a lifelong affection for golf and Senator Barry Goldwater, in that order. The family returned to Indiana during his senior year of high school, when Quayle's father became publisher of the Huntington Herald-Press. Quayle immediately became a member of the "A clique" there...
...years, Schlafly has battled the liberals--even Republican liberals. In the 1960s, Schlafly was an outspoken critic of Rockefeller Republicans and the Eastern Establishment which once dominated the party. Schlafly was one of the women the press dubbed "little old ladies in tennis shoes" who helped guide Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater to the Republican nomination...
...drought-weary farmers in the West, hot weather and high winds have brought another threat to this year's dwindling crop. Hordes of Russian wheat aphids, which thrive on dry wheat and barley fields, are rampaging through 15 Western states, from California and Arizona to Montana. The tiny stalk suckers (size: 0.1 in.) have nearly wiped out harvests in some fields. The bugs are natives of the Soviet Union, Iran and Afghanistan, but were transplanted to Mexico by unknown means in 1980 and have been moving north ever since. Last year the insects caused $36 million in damage across...
...basketball players posted up and down the convention floor. Four former professional B-ball players were delegates. Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen (6 ft. 11 in.) played for the Washington Bullets. Walt Bellamy (6 ft. 11 in.), a Jackson delegate from Georgia, played center for the Atlanta Hawks, among others. Arizona Congressman Morris Udall (6 ft. 5 in.) played one year for the Denver Nuggets. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley (6 ft. 5 in.), a former New York Knick, opened his convention speech with a quick 2 points: "This is the first time I've performed in the Omni in long...
...have long pooled their cash to allow members to bury their dead or to celebrate marriages. Modern-day clubs retain much of that social flavor. In a 1981-83 study of 50 people in Mexican and Mexican-American tandas (turns), Carlos Velez-Ibanez, an anthropologist at the University of Arizona, found that 17% cited family obligations such as weddings, baptisms and funerals as reasons for their participation. Each gathering of a keh, notes Sungsoo Kim, president of the Korean-American Small Business Center of New York, is a "great party with food and drinks and everything." Says Aurora Lares...