Word: dickson
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...father, Emmett Rice, was a governor of the Federal Reserve System. Her mother, Lois Dickson Fitt, is an academic scholar whose parents were born in Jamaica. Raised in a household that stressed education and public affairs knowledge, when Nixon resigned from office, a 9-year-old Rice was the one who told her parents the news...
...lately.” Harvard’s first promising opportunity came midway through the first half. In the 28th minute, Harvard was fouled in the circle and gained a penalty corner. Junior midfielder Kristin Bannon took the corner and sent a pass directly to freshman midfielder Carly Dickson who fired a shot on net. Dartmouth goaltender Meagan Vakiener, however, was up to the challenge, kicking Dickson’s shot away. Vakiener’s save ignited a counterattack, as the Big Green pushed the ball ahead into Harvard territory. Dartmouth midfielder Rebecca Sobel managed to fire a shot...
...balance is right as it is, says Anne Dickson, a Maori single mother of five in South Auckland. "He's too hard," she says of Key. "Some of us are struggling. Some of us haven't got any skills." Through a government Family Assistance package, Dickson, 26, gets the rent paid on a three-bedroom house and $NZ350 a week in the hand. The money tends to run out by Mondays, two days before she's paid again. But she makes do by cooking stews that can be stretched over a couple of nights. She's grateful for what...
...complex math problems to mysteriously appear thanks to tough yet sensitive MIT janitors from Southie, thank you very much. Let’s see what Cornell’s got: “If a virgin crosses the Arts Quad at midnight, the statues of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White will walk off their pedestals, meet in the center of the Quad, and shake hands, congratulating themselves on the chastity of the University.”Bingo. There’s nothing I can appreciate more than some good old fashioned Ivy League sexual repression.Prediction: Cornell 24, Princeton...
...built all the shelves from pieces of a TV console and got the rest from Dickson Brothers. I think they thought I was weird. I was there a lot,” he says. “I’d text my blockmates on Saturday morning and be like, ‘Can I start hammering now?’” Despite the inconvenience to his neighbors, Batt believes the final result was well worth the labor...