Word: messe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sure enough, she eventually finds Dwight, who lives with his three children from a previous marriage in the remote village of Chinook, three hours north of Seattle. "I knew my mother would never let herself get tangled up in a mess like that," Tobias writes, but he is wrong. In fact, he is packed off to live with Dwight, and if all goes well, his mother will accept Dwight's proposal and move in too. All goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias...
...protect the defense budget and farm subsidies. Asked last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that the kind of flap that followed the savings and loan mess may be repeated when he tells a joint session of Congress on Feb. 9 which promises he will keep and which ones he will abandon. "Look, I don't expect it's all going to be sweetness and harmony and light," the President said. "The minute we get those proposals...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher immediately threw her support behind the proposals. If the mess is not tackled voluntarily, she said, the government will seek tougher laws...
...religious fervor is a creation which can only be described as a city-stand hot dog combined with a salad--it's called a "Chicago Hot Dog." A complex culinary concoction, a true Chicago dog must adhere to a stringent recipe, otherwise it will turn into a dripping, mushy mess...
America, meet Barbara Bush, taking center stage in national life just in the knick of time. Nancy Reagan had many good qualities, but she was, well, something of a strain: those rail-thin looks, that hard-edged show-biz glitter and no children or grandchildren around to mess things up. The country may be ready for a First Lady who is honest about her size (14), her age (63) and her pearls (fake). She sports sweats on the weekends with no intention of jogging, does her own hair, likes takeout tacos, devours mystery novels, poaches at the net in mixed...