Word: hens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role from another perspective," she admits. There is a disadvantage to wearing two hats, of course. "I'm used to relaxing in the dressing room when I'm not in rehearsals, or during the show," she says. "Now I'll be standing in the wings like a mother hen." Scotto wouldn't be the first director to worry about laying...
...other records of the 50-odd ships plundered by the Whydah's captain before his ship sank, estimates that the loot still in the sand is worth $380 million more. It includes 500,000 to 750,000 silver coins, 10,000 lbs. of gold dust, a casket of "hen's-egg-size East Indian jewels" and some African ivory...
Utah Republican Jake Garn, a former Navy pilot and the first civilian official to go into space (aboard the shuttle Discovery last April), could barely speak. "These were my friends," he said. "Mike Smith was my mother hen." Smith had been specifically assigned to help ready Garn for his flight. Garn explained that all the astronauts were fully aware of the risks. "We never talked about it. We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else." Recalled Ohio Democrat John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth: "We used to speculate, the first group...
...fellow crew members to sign. He planned to present it during commencement exercises next June at his old school, now called Carteret High, where he was to be the featured speaker. Said Senator Jake Garn, who trained with Smith for a 1985 shuttle mission: "He was my mother hen. They assigned him to me." One thing the two never discussed, says Garn, was the possibility of a disaster: "We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else...
...HEN PAUL KIRK, the new Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), told a packed Forum at the Harvard Institute of Politics that we have already entered the post-Reagan era, he demonstrated a naivete that could prove fatal for the Democratic Party. Kirk reassured us that the "Conservative realignment" Democrats feared has not materialized and that all the party has to do to regain power is to wait for the political pendulum to swing back its way. With this kind of attitude among Democratic leaders, they are going to be waiting a long time...