Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distressing horse melodrama mysterious enough for Dick Francis, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes Winner Swale collapsed suddenly last week. Just eight days after his emphatic four-length victory at Belmont-the 1½-mile test of three-year-old champions-Swale returned from an ordinary gallop, reared up, tumbled over and died...
Mondale loyalists whistle bravely. "If I were a Republican, I'd be worried," declares Ohio Governor Dick Celeste. But the real fear grips the Democrats. "Mondale's chances are uphill," concedes Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Dave Nagle. Hart partisans give Mondale no chance at all. "Politics has a certain ecology to it," says Hart Adviser Frank Mankiewicz. "Walter Mondale appears to be Ronald Reagan's natural prey...
...investigator of the pain phenomenon was San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson. Says he: "One of the strange things about pain is the mind's refusal to keep old distress in focus. In my younger days, a truck hit my car and I spent nine months in an itchy body cast, but I no longer have painful, or even unpleasant, memories of the event." Thompson, in reporting the cover story, was especially impressed by Seattle Anesthesiologist John Bonica, an immigrant and former circus strongman who went on to become a pioneer in the field of pain alleviation...
...Maine didn't win it we'd have to go down there," said Dick Bergquidst, chairman of the NCAA baseball committee Because of that, he added yesterday. "I'm glad they...
...died Whereas nowadays we are assaulted with the pathetic little squeals of outrage over the behavior and arrogance of the Reggie Jackson's and George Steinbrenner's, Cobb, over the course of his 24-season career, managed to generate enough controversy to keep a whole squadron of Dick Young's clucking away at their typewriters for years on end. And Alexander gives a good flavor of the kind of psychological forces that could produce such controversy...