Word: grinch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child in a manger. Unfortunately, historical documents, legend and law prove this widespread rumor unfounded. Books on the history of Christmas and on holiday traditions show that Christmas festivities have as firm a root in pagan ritual as Christian rite and that Massachusetts itself at one time played the grinch...
...continuum of it, the meticulous formality of its records, the lovely mythic accessibility of the sport's past to its present) now grew disheveled. Local TV stations ran ancient episodes of Gomer Pyle instead of ball games. Somewhere in a high-rise Manhattan hotel, Mammon and the Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean...
When his birthday rolls around, Theodor Seuss Geisel usually hides out in Las Vegas to avoid being "smothered with love." Rather Grinch-like behavior for the author adored by children the world over as Dr. Seuss, but better than facing truckloads of treacly fan mail and thousands of pint-size pilgrims on his doorstep. Last week, however, the good "doctor" turned 77 at home in La Jolla, Calif., braving an avalanche of affection that was greater than ever. The reason: Governors of 15 states had declared March 2 Dr. Seuss Day. Indiana's Robert Orr went...
...kids can't read, what is the use of library books?" harrumphed California's aging (77) grinch, Howard Jarvis. An interesting question, but not much of an argument for Proposition 9, Jarvis' new plan to cut state personal income taxes in half. Two years ago Californians rousingly approved Jarvis' Proposition 13 to cut real estate taxes an average of 57%. This time his tax-cutting plan met strong opposition from civil service unions and other civic organizations, which argued that it would benefit the rich and cut government services to the poor. Result: Californians last week...
...Grinch did not steal the retail Christmas." So says Ted Grindal, a happy executive with the Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson specialty and department-store chain, speaking about the 14% sales increase his company rang up in December. While not every retailer did that well, most were pleasantly surprised by the big spending they saw this holiday season. The forecasts for December, in which stores commonly do about 20% of their annual trade, were for very slow business as a result of consumer worries about the economy. But now it appears that, overall, sales ran 5% to 10% ahead of last...