Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberation freeways has brought her an abortion and several emotional casualties. As for Younger Son Charles (Robert Burns), he is something of a militant prig, spared the worst of Bernard's blight through the harmonious offices of his wife-to-be's parents. This girl, Gwen (Jessica Drake), is mocked by the family for her lack of sophistication, but she is a judgment on them in the simplicity of her goodness...
Illinois St. 59, Drake...
...made My Favorite Wife with Irene Dunne in 1940, but all too often Cary Grant had trouble finding someone who could handle the real-life role. His four marriages-to Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton and Actresses Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon-all ended in divorce. Last week it was revealed that the Sultan of Suave, who is now a director of Fabergé, had taken No. 5. She is Barbara Harris, a stunning brunette in her early 30s. The Fabergent reportedly met his fabulady at a London hotel, where she worked as a publicist. Grant, 77, admitted that...
...Edwin Drake launched the petroleum age in 1859, when he drilled 69½ ft. into the ground along Oil Creek, near Titusville, Pa., and hit history's first oil gusher. Now, after more than a half-century of decline, the oil-and gasfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are gurgling anew. The fields are part of what geologists call the Eastern Overthrust Belt, a corridor of convoluted limestone, sand and shale that stretches 1,200 miles along the slopes of America's Appalachian Mountains, from the Adirondacks to Alabama...
...know they will not be accountable for individual performance (the swimmers slowed down when they thought their personal times were unrecorded) or suspect that fellow workers are not working as hard as they. The experimenters believe social loafing could account for the slowed growth of American labor productivity. Says Drake Professor Kipling Williams: "What we're finding is that when people work collectively on a task, they put out less effort than if working alone." Williams neglected to mention whether the phenomenon is observable among teams of psychology professors...