Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After returning from a visit with the Libyan dictator this month, Farrakhan reportedly told a congregation in Boston, "America, you should be ashamed of yourself. . . It is you who are the outlaw. How can a leader of a little country like Libya terrorize the world?" He told the Boston Herald, "Since it is not divinely backed . . . the state of Israel is an outlaw state...
...women, or even as especially desirable. "Your goals were supposed to be modest," she recalls. "If you were a girl, you either got a job and paid board, or you got married." She took typing and shorthand at a vocational school and worked as a copygirl at the Dayton Herald to meet expenses. (Bill Bombeck worked at the morning Journal...
...Dayton Herald took on a gifted but erratic recruit after Bombeck graduated from the university. As a reporter, she recalls, "I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order." Even with her shorthand, she says, "I could never get the knack of listening and taking notes at the same time." She would get excited and forget to write things down, and "everyone I interviewed ended up sounding like me. I did that with Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Eisenhower." The idea of Eleanor...
Bombeck turned out zingers in the wilderness, earned her $3 a week and tried not to spend it all in one place. Then in 1965 things began to move fast. The merged Dayton Journal Herald offered her a twice-a-week column, and only three weeks later, the Newsday syndicate took her up. The phrase is exact; in journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud. By the end of her first year, she had 36 papers, including Newsday, the Denver Post, the Minneapolis Star and the Atlanta Constitution. She began to be recognized...
...Dykstra struggled to be a comic writer for a decade, but got little encouragement until Bombeck responded to her advice-seeking letter by urging perseverance, "because there isn't enough humor in the world." Dykstra pressed on, and two years ago began selling" whimsical pieces to the Boston Herald. Last year she was given her own weekly column, "That's Life," which appears in the paper's Sunday edition. She is delighted that opportunity knocked after her three children entered adolescence. "When they're young," she says, "you're too tired to write...