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Baker had been consultant to the Merriam Webster dictionaries for drama terms. In mid-summer his copy of the great Second Edition arrived and he had the massive twenty-pound volume placed on a side-board in the dining room. Mr. and Mrs. Baker, three very bright teenage grandchildren and I ate our meals together Scarcely a meal passed but some unusual word would come up for discussion. Then I would go to the dictionary, read the relevant definition, and the etymology, and we would bandy the word about. That's how I learned the riches that he hidden...
...relay sponsors are as varied as America: scores of corporations, U.S. Marines, a schoolteacher in Wichita, Kans., and dozens of celebrities from Jane Fonda to O.J. Simpson. The runners will be, if anything, even more varied. Leading off the relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware...
...vacationers too raved to their colleagues about the world beyond the Charles a bronzed Walter Sullivan said his trip to Del Ray Beach Florida, with half of his eight grandchildren, "was super just super...
...anyone gullible enough to believe them are indeed wild and irresponsible. This includes, specifically, her standard "jelly babies" claim, for which she has yet to produce evidence despite repeated requests from US authorities that she do so. Likewise, the incidence of physical disorders among the children and grandchildren of those effected by radiation is statistically virtually the same as that among similar unaffected Marshallese...
...arrival of "Washington officials" gave grounds for hope that housing might be the next item slated for progress. "Our children need warm houses that can be lit with the electric," said Nancy White Horse, who already had many grandchildren of her own. Then, as we stood amid the tall yellow grass by her road, she made me a promise. "You're not the first to fly out here and look around," she informed me with a patient smile. "Nothing ever comes of it, but I'll tell you what: if you can get some houses built for my people...