Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romantic, down and dirty Dallas that television keeps alive has long since gone. "It's such a straight town," says Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back...
...approval of St. Andrews Presbytery, the supervisory body representing dozens of congregations in the St. Andrews area. All the while, a small group of church officials and sympathetic faculty members kept his past secret. Then last November, just after Nelson had married a fellow divinity-school student, the Glasgow Herald broke the story...
...first the project seemed to herald Northern Ireland's economic revitalization. In 1978 the British government agreed to help finance John Z. De Lorean's West Belfast car factory, which eventually provided 2,600 jobs at a time when 35% of the city's male workers were unemployed. But after four years the company went bankrupt, and De Lorean was later arrested on charges of trafficking in cocaine. Last week a British parliamentary committee issued a scathing 328-page report that attacks his misappropriation of public funds...
...record household observations in the best Bombeck tradition. The difference is in the voice: Stewart has a much deeper one. D.L., who was known as Denny before legally changing his name to initials, is a liberated husband of 20 years and the father of four. In a Dayton Journal Herald column, he writes about the ordinary upsets at his tri-level home in the bedroom community of Beaverbrook, Ohio. Stewart has not always been one of the dinette set, however. In the beginning, he wanted to be another Jimmy Breslin, but after hanging out in locker rooms, the curly-haired...
...began a little after 5 p.m., when the spear throwers complained that a fellow could lose his Olympics in the sun. Duncan Atwood noted, "It was sort of like having a flash go off in your face just as you released." Mel Durslag, a Los Angeles historian for the Herald Examiner, recalled that similar worries were heard in 1958 when the Dodgers wanted to put home plate in the Coliseum's east end. A man from nearby Arcadia proposed floating a giant balloon over the west rim, thereby shading the batter's eyes, but then someone else thought...