Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maybe it goes back to a small-town beginning in which you were aware of how people rallied around whenever there was a need," replied the native of Dixon, Ill., when asked if he felt a special relationship with the American people. "And then, another plus that I would repeat if I had to do it over again: I went to a quite small college, and in a small college there is no way you can be anonymous . . . I don't think even like is enough of a word. I love people...
Reagan's predecessors were just as profoundly and regionally American, of course: Johnson the Texan, Nixon from Whittier, Calif., Carter from south Georgia. But their pasts were all shadowed, in different ways, by an obscure sense of biographical hurt. Reagan's father was an improvident alcoholic in Dixon, Ill., and yet Reagan's mythic hometown America is a glorious place. Reagan communicates a bright and triumphant American past...
...Dwayne Jones, Brad Bunney, Adam Dixon and Sheehan broke the Harvard distance medley relay record at the Penn Relays with a time of 9:27.66--three seconds slower than the world record, and the eighth best time in the world...
Both teams entered the Palmer-Dixon tennis courts expecting a great match. Princeton had a chance to tie Harvard for the two titles and possibly secure a bid to the upcoming NCAA Championships later this month...
...tennis vs. Cornell, 2 p.m., Palmer-Dixon...