Word: heraldically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the age of eight, when her first poem was printed in the Boston Herald, Plath began awaiting the mailman with baited breath, her talent perpetually on trial. Her persistence through 10 years of New Yorker rejection slips was finally rewarded. Soon after accepting two poems, the New Yorker offered her a first-reading contract...
...encouraged them to move to villages. Now fewer than 500 Penans live in the forest. When they settle into towns, their expertise in the ways of the forest slips away. Villagers know that their elders used to watch for the appearance of a certain butterfly, which always seemed to herald the arrival of a herd of boar and the promise of good hunting. These days, most of the Penans cannot remember which butterfly to look...
...Marilyn, another law student. Quayle, who has refused to release his law-school transcript, also worked full-time as an aide in the state attorney general's office. He passed the bar exam in 1974 and spent the next two years working for his father's newspaper, the Huntington Herald-Press, until he was elected to Congress in 1976. That was Quayle's entire legal record. Marilyn was the lawyer in the family; he was the politician...
...have faced worse. In recent months, Libby Averyt of Texas' Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
...crime. Reporters reply that the information being sought can be found in other ways or is not essential. In covering Charles Stuart -- the Boston man who claimed his wife was shot by a black robber, then confessed to the crime and committed suicide -- reporters Patricia Mangan of the Boston Herald and David Ropeik of the city's WCVB-TV suggested that Stuart's brother was complicit. The district attorney sued unsuccessfully to make them reveal sources, arguing that other means had been exhausted. Says Ropeik: "I happen to know that the question, - 'Were you Mr. Ropeik's or Ms. Mangan...