Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jean Kennedy Smith 1928- --In 1974 she began Very Special Arts to foster art for the handicapped. She was recently Ambassador to Ireland --Late husband Stephen Smith managed both of R.F.K.'s campaigns...
...pageant" would fade. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," she quoted, "and our little life is rounded with a sleep." There were muffled sobs as Caroline's husband Edwin and her children Rose, 11, Tatiana, 9, and John, 6, lit candles and hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean sang, "It was time for me to go home/ And I'll be smiling in paradise," from the Jimmy Cliff reggae song Many Rivers to Cross...
Cheers to Molly Ivins for her celebration of the lovable stuff about Americans [ESSAY, July 12]. As I read it aloud to friends, I felt I was expressing my own ideas, illustrated with Molly's colorful word pictures. She held up a mirror, and we chuckled and nodded approval. JEAN H. MICULKA El Paso, Texas...
Anyone who thinks Christine Jean got rich by winning a Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992 should take a spin in her antiquated Renault. Most of the windows don't roll down; the passenger-side door opens only from the outside; and the paint is pocked with rust. But Jean doesn't care. All her $60,000 prize money went to Loire Vivante, the umbrella group she has headed since 1987. Its mission: blocking a gargantuan dam-building project that could have destroyed beautiful landscape and fragile ecosystems surrounding Europe's last wild river...
...obstacle the dam builders never anticipated was the feisty Jean. A native of Nantes, she had been fascinated by nature since childhood, studied biology in college and got a master's degree in ecology. In 1985 she ran into a former teacher who was trying to organize opposition to the dams. "I went to some meetings with him and was soon gripped by the same passion to save the Loire," she explains...