Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Susan Ford, recalling the time her father Jerry Ford had mistakenly dispatched one of her report cards to his library at the University of Michigan: "Anything my dad finds, he has it notarized and sends it-things I'd rather forget...
...touchdown, field goal, extra point or safety, returns to the sideline and mugs for the cameraman with "Hi Mom" or any other personal statements, his team will suffer a 15-yard penalty and loss of down on its next possession. However, a player will not be penalized for "Hi Dad," since none have ever said that...
...have been threatened with arson if they do business with the newcomer. Many citizens are chary of talking with strangers. A strapping young man emerging from Ragsdale's Laundromat says that, although he needs a job, he turned down $14 an hour to join nonunion construction workers. "My dad's a miner. He'd kill me if I even talked with scabs...
...earlier by his mother, Kathryn Crosby, a medallion that Bing had won for making the field in the same tournament exactly 40 years earlier. "I definitely felt his presence, and thinking of him calmed me," said the young Crosby. "I wasn't absentmindedly touching that medal. Dad was in my mind all day." -By E. Graydon Carter...
...FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sábato ∙Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban ∙The Testament, Elie Wiesel ∙Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth...