Word: dees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Sunday night there was a public party in Mather House, to which I had invited a few friends from home. One of my friends, in fact, had been hired to dee-jay the party. As a result, for much of the evening, he and most of my other friends were clustered in a section of the room physically detached from the dance floor. My friends, with one exception, are in their early 20s. The exception was the kid brother of two of my friends, a boy still in high school...
...older brother, the dee-jay, was then approached by the same Mather senior. The Mather student informed the older brother that he was a homosexual, and the older brother told the Mather senior to stay away from him and his brothers...
...trigger-happy crack gangs have pointed the way for other criminals who once carried relatively crude firearms or none. "The old adage about burglars and car thieves never being armed is completely changed," says Dee Anderson, an Arlington, Texas, patrolman. He reports that an Uzi and a shotgun were recently used in stickups of a convenience store and a fast-food outlet in that north Texas city. Police also note apprehensively a tendency among all types of criminals not just to carry guns but to use them rather than submit to arrest. Says Houston Police Officer Al Baker: "Just about...
...nuns paraded behind a banner proclaiming JESUS LOVES DEMOCRACY. Government employees brandished a MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS sign, while retired military men proudly unfurled a banner reading ASSOCIATION OF FORMER COMMANDERS AND OLD COMRADES. From self-identified housewives to state factory workers and students, all were there to demand "Dee...
...showman had seized kids' minds, he could raid their piggy banks. And on that mountain of pennies he could build an empire. His cartoons and feature films sired comic books, toys, hit songs (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, When You Wish upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah) and the ubiquitous Mickey Mouse watch. While other moguls ground out 40 or 50 pictures a year, then consigned them to rot in the vaults, Disney made a few superior films that could be recycled for a new audience of children every seven years. A half-century...