Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Royal manager Dick Howser's lifetime post-season record dropped to 0-10 with the loss...
...political pay dirt. Said California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "The issue is there. Texas One (the First District) proved that." More than a few Republicans suspected that the Democrats could very well be correct, politically if not economically. Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, a member of what he described as "a small band of brothers" favoring free trade, was afraid that the issue of curbs on imports provided "an opening for Democrats to reestablish their ties to the blue-collar voter. It's the Iranian hostage crisis in reverse." His meaning...
...Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, but privately "he used to grit his teeth (and say), 'You know, Dick, I would never have approved a plan without air cover...
...cities are growing as fast as the influx of visitors. Thieves are operating in formerly safe sites such as Paris' Latin Quarter and even idyllic Stratford-upon-Avon. Refunds for missing American Express Travelers Cheques have climbed by a significant margin. "The British don't want to advertise," says Dick Haegeley, chief of the Passport and Citizen's Unit at the American embassy in London, "but they should have a sign when you step off the plane: BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS." In Paris they are operating in overdrive. Reports of lost and stolen American passports are up as much...
...Lemon test is a lemon," protested Forest Montgomery, spokesman for the National Association of Evangelicals. The American Civil Liberties Union, however, called the rebuilding of church-state separation a "welcome exercise in true conservatism." A.E. Dick Howard, the University of Virginia law professor who represented taxpayers challenging Grand Rapids' school program, acknowledges that the cases return the court to the mainstream of its own past decisions. But the close vote "shows there is much to be fought over with the next vacancy on the court," he noted. "The majority of five includes most of the older Justices." Says University...