Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jennifer Goldberg finished 6th and qualified for the Nationals in the regional Women's Diving Championship held in Columbus, Ohio...
...large, the yes respondents combined disgruntlement over the mechanics of their mates' lovemaking with a desire for more human contact. A woman from Columbus wrote, "I am under 40 and would be delighted to settle for tender words and warm caresses. The rest of it is a bore. I am sure sex was designed for the pleasure of males." From Washington came the outburst: "Yes, yes, a million times yes! I would love to be spoken to tenderly. My boyfriend never says a word. If I say anything he says, 'Be quiet. You're spoiling things...
...what guides nations, founds corporations and reaches all the standard milestones of progress. But it is unreasoning hope, futile hope, doomed hope that occasionally expresses the poetry of surprise. If everyone subscribed entirely to the rule of common sense, the world would be a quite different place. Christopher Columbus would probably have looked to the Western horizon and told his crew, "There doesn't seem to be anything in sight. Let's turn around and go home...
Perhaps it is all as simple as that old tale about Christopher Columbus and the egg. The explorer was being mocked at a dinner by a courtier who declared that Spain was full of mariners as bold and adventurous as he. If Columbus had not discovered the new route to the Indies, said the courtier, someone else would inevitably have done so. Columbus asked for an egg and then challenged all the guests to make it stand on end. They passed the egg from hand to hand, some trying in vain to make it stand, some arguing that it could...
...active in the American Federation of Government Employees, eventually becoming president of the chapter representing Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. His former boss, Dick McGarvey, describes him as a "tough negotiator" and as "a good friend." Schroeder was also a leader in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society...