Word: dickinson
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...last September. Anxious to avoid a trial and the embarrassment it would cause his family, he pleaded guilty to armed robbery, aggravated burglary and unauthorized use of a stolen vehicle; he was sentenced to 231 years in prison without parole. Simonis and two other Lake Charles men, John Glass Dickinson III, 26, a pharmacist, and Frederick A. Boerman Jr., 27, a waiter and musician, were also indicted on charges connected with the double rapes of a mother and her 14-year-old daughter last June. Charges are expected to be filed against Simonis and Dickinson in at least seven other...
...snails. A boy growing up in the Midwest wants a dog. It's a macho thing." Later in life, though, Reed's attitudes softened enough for him to work at writing poetry in a study shared with two Siamese cats-Emily and Hilda, named after Poets Emily Dickinson and Hilda Doolittle. That blend of interest in the literary and the feline eminently qualified Reed to write this issue's cover story on America's love-hate relationship with cats...
NEFCO representative Rink Dickinson said his organization "has been able to make links with small local farmers," providing better produce more cheaply. But because large corporations own all stages of production, they can "sell food at a loss to drive out the competition," Rosenthal said. Food co-ops "must compete with the corporations while maintaining a humane food system," Rosenthal said...
Susan Redlich of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture agreed with Rosenthal and Dickinson that "a plan of regional self-reliance in agriculture is both reasonable and viable." The trend towards large, corporate-owned farms stems from "tax breaks that give disproportionate benefits to large farms, even though medium to small farms are more efficient," Redlich said
...stirrings of many American patriots contributed to their willingness to revolt. The four men Shaw portrays were hardly unique in their view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself the benefits she might reasonably expect, and preserved...