Word: dicks
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...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...
DIED. Zerna Sharp, 91, former first-grade teacher in La Porte, Ind., who created the concept for the Dick and Jane textbooks that for more than four decades helped teach American schoolchildren to read ("See me run. See Spot run. Oh, oh! This is fun."); in Frankfort, Ind. Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint...
...know graffiti is not put on as the trains are in the train stations. It is put on in the yards. And the way you prevent the graffiti and the vandalizing of those subway cars is to protect them when they are in the yards. I said to Dick Ravitch [chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority], I said to Dick, 'Look. Why don't you build a fence around the yards at night and put a dog in there to protect those cars? And that will stop the vandals.' And he said, 'No.' And I said, 'Why?' He said...
...heart attack patient was to prescribe rest for four to six weeks. If innovations in diagnosis and treatment continue at the same impressive pace, cardiovascular disease may one day yield its claim to being the nation's No. 1 killer. -By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Anne Constable/Atlanta and Dick Thompson/San Francisco, with other U.S. bureaus
...hard to recognize him without his custom-made porkpie hat and Dick Tracy suits, but that almost affable-looking skipper is former Tough Guy Mickey Spillane. Though he still has a mug that would halt traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, it may be that the gravel-voiced master of hard-boiled detective fiction has finally gone soft. Spillane, 63, has taken to writing children's books. His first, The Day the Sea Rolled Back (Bantam, $1.75), is about two boys on a search for buried treasure. They run into a couple of villains who might have felt...