Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions were asked in a soft voice by a slight, graying American woman as she faced a throng of reporters in Tehran, about 7,000 miles from her home in Oak Creek, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee. Only hours ahead of a ban on travel to Iran imposed on Americans by the President, Barbara Timm, 41, had flown to Tehran on a unique maternal odyssey. She wanted to visit her son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, who, at 20, is the youngest of the 53 hostages. At her side was her second husband, Kenneth Timm, 42, a construction machinery salesman...
Although 1952 Olympic champion Yoshi Oyakawa spends most of his time concentrating on developing his young proteges at Cincinnati's Oak Hills High School, the premier backstroker of the early 1950s still finds time to dip in the pool occasionally and pursue his own career in state level Masters age group competition...
...swimmers at Oak Hills benefit from the native Hawaiian's close attention to the scientific developments in stroke instruction and workout schedules. He presently incorporates heavy doses of Nautilus and Universal weight machine exercises into practice sessions for the Highlanders...
...anyone is at fault, it's the oil companies and other big business," says Detroit Housewife Eunice Leopold. A Beverly Hills surgical fitter who uses the professional name of Sally Ann sees the villains as "a combination of the unions and the farmers." Some even blame themselves. Says Oak Park, Mich., Housewife Marsha Avrushin: "People are to blame in part because they're greedy. They've got to have the bigger house, the extra car, the new refrigerator. And there's no waiting for a year or two; they've got to have...
...firehouse across the street; a brass band belted out lusty, if strangely matched, renditions of God Bless America and Ease on Down the Road. Reagan, visibly buoyed, even got off some unrehearsed one-liners. When a local politician proudly showed him the town's 90-year-old heavy polished-oak ballot box, Reagan cracked, "I'd like to stuff that ballot...