Word: beavers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hawthornes and Thoreau, who was so frequent a visitor that Emerson's children regarded him as a member of the family. On view in the nursery are the children's 18th century rocking horse and a dollhouse with the original handmade furnishings. Articles of Emerson's clothing--his tall beaver hat, the "Gaberlunzie" robe he probably wore when he got up early and his wife Lydian slept late--hang in other rooms...
...players for each team traded sweepsas freshman No. 1 Margaret Elias lost to sophomoreJulia Beaver...
Other owners may not be so realistic. Says Bonnie Beaver, a behavior specialist for 25 years and chief of medicine at Texas A & M's veterinary school: "I'll have people say, 'See, he soiled the couch to spite me! He knows he's guilty!' Or they'll try to reason intellectually with the dog. Often it's a medical problem. [Or] the dog may have peed in the house for as simple a reason as it was too cold to go when he went...
...reason to hire me," Hanks says. "I was a new guy." Yet here he was, at 23, earning $9,000 an episode: "I made more money in two weeks than I'd made in my entire career." Scolari recalls that "Tom lived in a Leave It to Beaver house with Samantha and their two children." The Hankses separated...
...plot contrivance for this effect is acceptable, if a little clunky. Introverted teenager David (Tobey Maguire), a divorce child of the '90s, immerses himself in reruns of Pleasantville, a '50s TV show somewhere between "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." For him, it offers an escape from his less-than-idyllic real life to a haven where the weather is always sunny, everybody is gainfully employed and lives in a spick-and-span house with a white picket fence, and the main characters enjoy the kind of secure, comfortable family life he's never known. His obsession...