Word: daltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't stumbled upon one of those places in the minivan, children strapped in behind you in those church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...
Things are good in Dalton. Per capita income is among the highest in the state at $24,773, and Zack Norville's warehouse manager, Travis Burns, drives a Jaguar, for crying out loud...
Which is not to say beauty does not still walk down the street in Dalton, Ga., and into the Oakwood for eggs and grits, or into Jimmy's for a cocktail. But the Miss Resaca Beach pageant is no more. It could be that when Marla Maples, who won the thing, ended up with Donald Trump as her trophy, it took the shine off the prize...
...girl doesn't need to leave Dalton to get herself a millionaire...
...Rosalyn Carter showed the hostages and their families enormous compassion. The second is that in the week prior to the dedication of the multimillion-dollar Reagan Building and the renaming of Washington National Airport, it was barely noted in the press that Secretary of the Navy John Dalton held a ceremony naming the latest nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter. As Dalton so aptly put it, Carter is like a submarine in that he runs "silent but deep." It's a pity that many of our leaders these days are just the opposite, loud and shallow. PENELOPE B. LAINGEN Bethesda...