Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Frank Perdue, 65, beaky-nosed prince of chickens as the TV pitchman for his own poultry firm, now the nation's fifth largest; and Kathleen M. Markey, 37, investment banker; he for the second time, she for the first; in New York City.
DIED. Chester Gould, 84, cartoonist who in 1931 created Dick Tracy, the hawk- nosed dean of comic-strip detectives, and chronicled his adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes...
Pawloski's an anachronism, a throwback to the days before Bobby Orr when hard-nosed defense was every defenseman's top priority. At 5-ft., 11-in, 180 pounds, the Northville, Mich. native is certainly no goon. But he's proved big enough to bring what Cleary calls "the lost...
I saw that the egotistical image portrayed in the anecdotes around town was not far off the mark when I met Brezhnev while working on President de Gaulle's visit to Moscow in June 1966. For a long time after World War II, De Gaulle was portrayed by students at...
The attack was carefully timed and meticulously planned. Shortly after midnight under a full moon, small-arms fire began to crackle around the Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base known as Ampil, hard by the border with Thailand. The shooting eventually died away, only to be replaced, just after sunrise...