Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would crow, while Tennessee fans sulked and the interlopers from Florida had to listen to the abuse of the Auburn backers. The only time everyone agreed on anything was when one of "our teams" beat a Yankee school-the definition of Yankee being so broadly construed that it included Nebraska, U.C.L.A. and Texas, as well as Penn State and Syracuse...
That view may be losing ground. Delaware and Nebraska have adopted new laws allowing wives to charge live-in husbands with rape, and a similar statute in New Jersey will go into effect next September. More states permit wives who are separated from their husbands to charge rape, and women's groups elsewhere are becoming vocal on the subject. They resent what Nancy Burch, director of the Oregon women's center that Greta first contacted, calls the "archaic notion that a woman is her husband's property." The Rideout case is the first of its kind under...
...processors and big farmers, and her goal is to make it "the people's department" that Abraham Lincoln had envisioned. The processors and many farmers complain that she is hurting agriculture, in part because she is calling for severe restrictions on food additives and for more detailed product labeling. Nebraska Republican Congresswoman Virginia Smith, expressing a view common in the farm belt, protested: "Carol Tucker Foreman, one of agriculture's biggest enemies, is at work right now discrediting the meat industry and causing the public to lose confidence in American farm products." The meat industry has sued to block...
...When swimming one should never wave at someone on the shore "because the lifeguards may think you are calling for help and spring into action." Baldrige laughingly admits that much of this advice is elementary, but, "of course, it is possible that people might come to the ocean from Nebraska [Baldrige's home state] and might never have been to the beach before...
Tish came from a well-off, but by no means rich lawyer's family in Omaha. Her father, Howard Malcolm Baldrige, a strikingly handsome athlete at Yale who was decorated in both World Wars, served as a Republican Congressman from Nebraska for two terms...