Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, the desk clerk seems first to rebut, then to affirm, Carmen's assessment. "Been keeping up with all the presidential candidates traipsing through Manchester?" "Yeah," he says brightly. "A couple of them were right here at the lodge." "Which ones?" A gulp. "I can't remember which ones...
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Ph.D., bestselling author (Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream), ex-Harvard professor, baseball nut-and lady. Thus when Kearns' favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, took the unprecedented step of inviting her into their training-camp dressing room, Kearns chose the middle way. She went, but only after the team was on the field. "It was neater than most women's locker rooms I've seen," she reported. "The players' clothes were all neatly hung." Admits Kearns: "I'm willing to let someone else be the first woman in there...
...Emporia, Kans., offers free guidance on a writer's hot line, a Dial-a-Grammarian service for students and anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., and the Johnson County Community College near Kansas City, Kans. "We get several calls a week from California alone," says Arkansas English Instructor Michael Montgomery. The most common questions concern the correct use of who vs. whom, and which vs. that. The most frequent callers are secretaries struggling with their bosses' dictation...
...lines are less than two years old, and growing steadily in popularity. The phone service costs Arkansas and Johnson County next to nothing, since instructors and graduate students from writing labs are regularly assigned to phone duty, and the callers pay for their own calls. But at Emporia the service is costing the English department roughly an extra $100 per month, because the university pays for calls made to its toll free number from anywhere in the state of Kansas...
...Johnson will get help from senior co-captain Lisa Burrus and Lisa Westlake in the discus and from Wendy Blatt and Betsy Adams in the shotput...