Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing that must always be remembered about Ronald Reagan is his reverence for his roots, his childhood in Dixon, Ill. For all the family's financial problems, his older brother Neil, now 71 and retired after a long career as a Hollywood advertising executive, says of their boyhoods: "You could draw a pretty close parallel with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. We never had a worry in the world that I can remember." True, the family moved five times in 14 years by Neil's reckoning. Before Ronald left for college, the Reagans never lived in a house...
Reagan hastens to add that he is not proposing to do away with drivers' licenses, Social Security or withholding taxes. He acknowledges that his rosy evocations of the past are selective, that blacks, for instance, were not exactly free (in fact, the Klan was active in Dixon during his youth). He even maintains, "I don't want to go back to the so-called simple life. It wasn't simple at all." But he says that only after he has been backed into the corner that is reality. On the stump, the message is unadorned...
...mile mark, Schuller began to fade as a week-long illness took its toll. Meanwhile, half-miler-turned-distance runner Adam Dixon began moving away from...
...Dixon, however, met with some opposition at the halfway mark, which pushed his competitive spirit into over-drive as he flew by the Cornell runners to notch second...
Displaying his usual flair, Dixon sprinted into the finish line to complete "his first really really good cross country race," McCurdy said...