Word: mcrae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more recently, the University of Florida completed a new architecture complex in 1979 and has already had to repair part of it because the correct materials were not always used in the construction, according to John McRae, chairman of the architecture department of that school...
...Shoppers are spending, in particular on clothing and entertainment-oriented electronics products like video recorders and video games. Says Avery A. Haak, corporate economist for Dayton Hudson Corp. of Minneapolis, the seventh largest U.S. retailer: "I see some evidence that the consumer is spending more freely." Adds Richard D. McRae Jr., executive vice president of the twelve-store McRae's department-store chain based in Jackson, Miss.: "We have seen a big improvement in sales in the past three to seven weeks. There has been an across-the-board increase of 20% in apparel, which is about...
DIED. Mattie Talmadge, 100, proud, wizened, indomitable matriarch of Georgia's most prominent 20th century political dynasty (Husband Gene was elected Governor four times, and Son Herman served as Governor for seven years and four terms as U.S. Senator); in McRae, Ga. Six days after the Talmadges arrived at the Governor's mansion in 1933, "Miss Mit," refusing to shuck her rural demeanor, returned to the family's McRae plantation because she was homesick for the cows and chickens. She raised eyebrows again in 1936 when she spurned Eleanor Roosevelt's invitation to the White House...
...Royals notched their second run in the fourth, as Willie Mays Aikens smashed a triple and came home on a Hal McRae single. And the Phillies answered in turn as Mike Schmidt led off the fifth inning with a long home run over the left-center field fence...
...Phillies set a record of their own in top of the ninth, leaving two men on base for a game total of fourteen left on. Kansas City was no more successful as Otis hit into a double play, voiding a McRae single, and Darrell Porter popped out to right field...