Word: nina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeking to make his great journey to the west, Columbus went to King John of Portugal, but was not granted any funds as King John thought Columbus mad. And yet he persevered. At last, he convinced Queen Isabella of Spain to finance his journey. With his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean. It is interesting to point out that one-third of his crew was composed of teenagers, black and white, some as young as fourteen. The journey across the Atlantic is a long one. I have crossed that ocean...
...hair grow long," explains the manager of Joseph Magnin's spare hair department, or "they are between visits to the hairdresser. Also, they may want them for after the pool or the gym, or just to get a different look." Sometimes the look is a little too different: Nina Blanchard, owner of a model agency, picked up a flame-colored number, faced the mirror and shrieked: "Red Skelton in drag...
...handles the intellectual side and talks quite a bit to Faculty members, and Parker Donham, a former CRIMSON editor and longtime Harvard student who has a beard that goes all over his face and down the back of his head. Occasionally, the Globe's education writers turn up-Nina McCain and Larry Van Dyne-but they usually stay in the office and read important papers. Also seen frequently are big-time political writers like Jerry Murphy and Robert Healy. As if that were not enough, the Globe has two stringers, both of them CRIMSON editors or former editors, depending...