Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their white boots and chanted: "Ratify the ERA, we shall not be moved!" Familiar feminist leaders-Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem noteworthy among them-led some 50,000 men, women and children, most wearing white, to symbolize their spiritual ties with the suffragists,* down Chicago's Columbus Drive and into Grant Park. There the crowd cheered heartily as Mayor Jane Byrne declared, "It's time that we women of Illinois were looking at the legislature and saying...
...Glen A. Sea Columbus...
...NOTEBOOK: Faces in the crowd: Paula Bauer--seventh-grade sister of shortstop Brad--and her parents closed our a weekend of Harvard baseball by taking in yesterday's game. The Bauers return to Columbus, Ohio, today.... Harvard hockey coach Billy Cleary stopped by for a few innings to catch what he calls "my actual favorite sport." Cleary spoke optimistically about the incoming freshmen he expects to help the puck program.... The Crimson travels to Worcester, Mass., this afternoon to battle Holy Cross. Crusader fans (and anyone else who goes) will see baseball and basketball star Ronnie Perry play short-stop...
...Columbus, Ohio, native tied the score, rocketing a four-run blast over the left field fence for the Crimson's first grand slam of the campaign...
...scribbling away ever since. So have generations of traveling writers. It became a sort of religious obligation, like the Muslim hadj, for European journalists, geniuses and hacks to make their way to the New World and there test their sensibilities upon the peppy and savage Nova Zembla that interrupted Columbus on his way to the Orient...