Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unequivocal: his smile was different, the way he held his body was different. Walter Mondale was finally relaxing. Back in the north woods of his native Minnesota for a glorious week, he had no swarm of reporters around him constantly nagging, plenty of home-cooked meals (steaks, barbecued chicken, fresh fish), and time with the whole family in a rustic cabin on Gunflint Lake...
...careful. By all means, read the grocery list for the athletes. Pork, 63,700 Ibs.; beef, 206,555 Ibs.; 70,000 dozen eggs. (You do deliver?) You say that if someone laid those eggs end to end they'd stretch for 25 miles? One pooped chicken. That's a joke, son. No harm, no foul...
...Michigan, but ahead of New Jersey), not including California. The city measures 30 miles at its widest, 44 miles at its longest. It is roughly 465 sq. mi., and when you reach an edge and leave the city behind, there is no sense of leaving anything, because the fried chicken joints, the car washes, taco houses, newspaper racks, billboards, stop lights and, along your flanks, oil pumps bobbing like giraffes eating the tops out of acacia trees just...
Mondale had some calling to do too. After a supper of cold fried chicken with family and aides, he returned to the den to contact the other candidates he had been considering and tell them he had chosen someone else?without saying whom. Most reacted without surprise. Bradley had so little expectation of getting favorable word, that embarrassed aides had to tell Mondale's assistants that the mayor had gone out on a private matter without bothering to tell them where he could be reached. Mondale did not get hold of him until Thursday morning...
Fortified by Sister Carol's special chicken curry with rice, chauffeured by his father Bill, cheered by his mother Evelyn (when she could bear to watch), only Lewis, 22, seemed unawed by the regimen of so many heats under so much pressure. "I'm not saying it's easy," he announced at the outset, "but it's attainable. I'm ready to roll." He won the 100-meter dash in 10.06 with his familiar finishing crescendo, over Football Players Sam Graddy of Tennessee and Ron Brown, soon of the Los Angeles Rams...