Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard hockey team to seek spiritual support, this is it. So like a Moslem to Mecca, like a Catholic to St. Peter's, like a nerd to Cabot, it was time for this hockey fan to make his pilgrimage to the shrine at the corner of Atwater and Lincoln, the Montreal Forum...
...Last week the Yonkers, N.Y., school district threatened to reopen its schools three weeks late in January unless the city council comes up with an additional $12 million. Schools in San Jose, Calif., are open, but the district declared bankruptcy in September, and is $1.7 million in debt. In Lincoln County, Ore., 16 schools closed for almost two weeks this fall until voters approved an increase in property taxes. So what is a school board...
...drivers for the D.C. Cab Co. One black dude (Charlie Barnett) gets scared and screams, "I'm goin' to nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with his old Nam flamethrower. "You attract animals...
Presidential greatness has been pondered by amateurs and experts for two centuries. In 1948 Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. conducted the first formal survey, asking 55 "experts," the majority of whom were professional historians, to rate the Presidents. Lincoln, Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Wilson and Jefferson topped the list in that order...
...survey, as in the Schlesinger ratings, Lincoln was voted our best President. F.D.R. moved to second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...