Word: forde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...startle Dartmouth Coach John Lyon and his coaching staff senseless. They mistakenly think that just because you have a little gray in your hair, your playbook was created back in the Pleistocene Era when dinosaurs walked the earth. (I know the truth, of course, and that is that Henry Ford designed your package of pass plays and you yourself diagrammed most of the runs...
Yesterday's lecture was the first in a seriesof three. The Du Bois lectures were established in1981 with a grant from the Ford Foundation
...over from the Reagan era. Among the new hardships were the steep regulatory costs of the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Boskin later bluntly told Bush that he was unlikely in 1992 to see a recovery as strong as Reagan had enjoyed in 1984, or Ford in 1976. Unemployment probably would not decline by much, and might even get worse...
...police cruiser, a gray, 1988 Ford Crown Victoria which contained no weapons, was found abandoned on Huntington Avenue in Boston on Monday...
Like quiz contestants nervously blurting out wrong answers, some incumbent Presidents have lost debates because of pressure-of-the-moment gaffes. Jerry Ford made his bizarre 1976 declaration that Poland was not a communist country and foolishly stuck to it for five days because he misremembered a briefing on the Helsinki Accords, which implied recognition of Soviet control of Eastern Europe. Did it really make substantive -- as opposed to political -- difference that in 1980 Jimmy Carter blurted out that he had been discussing arms control with his precocious 13-year-old daughter...