Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That small act of concern symbolizes the problem that confronts Governor Dixy Lee Ray, her state of Washington and indeed the entire Pacific Northwest. The unspoiled region is struggling to preserve a natural balance that is threatened by the works of man, striving to encourage progress yet retain the beauty of the forests, the mountains and the seacoast that make the area so mistily appealing and define its very essence...
...frustrating, challenging ?all those things." Blithely disregarding her fall in favor, she has already announced that she will run for another term when her first one is up in 1981. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wryly thanked her for not announcing for the presidency. Small chance of that?Dixy Lee Ray relishes too much delivering thunderbolts from the Olympia of her own Washington...
...whole Northwest, and most especially Washington, is entering a crucial phase, one that will decide whether the region can retain the very elements that distinguish it, in substance and flavor, if not literally in every forest and windswept stretch of coastline. Dixy Lee Ray, herself an increasing source of controversy, is right in the middle of the struggle and delighted to be there. With the subtlety of a Seattle stevedore, she is bulldozing ahead on the key issues. Among them...
...didn't think the Springfield kid would be able to cope with Bob," Lee said yesterday. "But he didn't just cope, he beat him easily...
Next, just when the Crimson could least afford it, came disappointment number two. Iim Corcoran (158 lbs.) is having trouble with his defense. "He left it in Cambridge," Lee explained. "The guy from Springfield was getting takedowns from out of left field." The final takedown, at the buzzer, left Corcoran a 7-6 loser...