Word: minn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...summer of 1982, with Dukakis locked in a tight race for Governor, his wife invented a mythical case of hepatitis to mask her monthlong stay at the Hazelden Rehabilitation Center in Center City, Minn. Defending this cover- up at a press conference last week, Dukakis said, "It was very important to her that this not be public, and I respected that...
...what sex symbol of the '60s has become a health emblem of the '80s? Stumped? Try the water bed. Yes, that infamous fixture of hippie pads has been transformed in just two decades into an increasingly popular middle-class therapeutic aid. Kathleen Hetland and her husband Darwin of Osakis, Minn., both 56 and arthritis sufferers, sleep blissfully on a water mattress that their children sent them as a gift. Says she: "I absolutely love it, and I wouldn't know what to do without...
Half an hour before the beginning of the show named after Prairie Home, a cemetery in Moorhead, Minn., the theater doors open, and fans who have been waiting all afternoon in 99-degree heat file in, wearing T shirts advertising Powdermilk Biscuits and Bertha's Kitty Boutique. At the 15-minute mark Keillor wanders onstage, looking solemn, and tells everyone he does not believe in unsentimental farewells. He wants howling and lamentation, he says; he wants people to throw themselves on the floor and wrap their arms around his ankles. Yessir...
Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn.: I think we need a democratic Anti-Defamation League, and I urge you to found such an institute. ((It)) would monitor and hand down grades to men and women responsible for political utterances -- whether delivered over radio, television, orally before a live audience, or written in books or billboards. I would like to see your democratic Anti-Defamation League defend the honor of democracy by attacking those who abuse that venerable convention of self- government by public travesties of even semi-orderly thought. How fine...
...maintains that the increased determination by authorities to uncover child sex abuse has had a less wholesome consequence: a raft of false charges that devastate the lives of those accused. Spiegel is not the only one to complain. Three years ago, 24 adults in the small city of Jordan, Minn., were charged with sexually abusing children. But only one was convicted, while two were acquitted, and charges against 21 others were dropped. They are suing the county for, among other things, the damage caused when children were taken from their parents by authorities, some for a year or more...