Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LINCOLN, Neb.--A 7-ft., 2-in. King stomped the Harvard men's basketball team last night...
...Crimson (1-1 overall) will face Nebraska (1-2) in the opening game of the Ameritus Classic, tonight in Lincoln, Neb. at 7:30 p.m. (WHRB...
...Crimson flew out to Lincoln Wednesday, thus allowing ample time to adjust to the one-hour time difference. Harvard may have more trouble adjusting to the height difference--the Cornhuskers possess two seven-footers and seven others taller than...
...from unexciting residential mortgages to potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even as it was heading into receivership. Named head of the Office of Thrift Supervision in August, Wall now directs the agency established to solve the problems Garn-St. Germain helped create...
...been drowning in a syrupy sea of treacle. Almost every Thanksgiving cliche was in place by the mid-19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode." Just weeks before he composed the soaring sentences of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln began his 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation with this hackneyed conceit: "The year that is drawing toward...