Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hungry world sought aid. Chemical fertilizers hyped the yields. New machines snorted through the thick fields. Norman Lear, the movie producer, came around in 1969 to use the Greenfield square as a setting for his film Cold Turkey. The Free Press went Hollywood with relish, interviewing Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke and Tom Poston. That was before the Dutch elm disease decimated the leafy canopy over the square and left the side streets with sunstroke. Greenfield folks watched in shock as the massive elms, more than 100 years old, were cut down and hauled away. But immediately stories began...
...sixth month of her pregnancy, "Nicole," 27, picked a set of parents for her baby out of a black loose-leaf binder. It was a thick album filled with letters and pictures of couples in search of a child. Jan and Dick Evans, like nearly everyone else in the book, posed smiling with their dog. "We want, in sum, to provide your child with all the benefits our own health, love and success can offer -- not to spoil, but to share," they wrote. Nicole liked that...
...with me," said Jan gently. She and Dick have made their peace with the idea despite their natural fear that at any moment Nicole could change her mind and decide to keep the baby...
When Nicole entered the hospital on Aug. 26, Dick's beeper sounded and the Evanses rushed over from a Los Angeles Raiders game. Jan helped coach Nicole through her labor and the birth of the baby girl. The Evanses named her Rebecca; Nicole nursed her in the birthing room...
...part, this attitude reflects Bush's deeply ingrained caution about doing "something dumb," as Baker put it last week. It also suits the hard-line doubters, like NSC deputy Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Vice President Dan Quayle, who think Gorbachev is only a short-timer and the Soviet Union will never really change...