Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series, Trudeau depicted Sinatra as a vulgar-mouthed pal of mobsters, undeserving of the Medal of Freedom recently given him by Reagan. The most debated strip quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology. The final panel carried a mid-1960s photo of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, who was described as an "alleged human . . . later charged with the murder of Gambino Family Member Charley Calise...
...brainstorming is the burgeoning number of occasions for which greetings are available. Card buyers can now congratulate a friend on getting a driver's license, buying a new car or completing a successful diet. Customers can use cards to announce a divorce, propose a tryst or console a pal whose pet dog has died. Carrying that marketing strategy to an extreme, California Dreamers, a Chicago company, has put out an all-purpose Generic Greeting Card. The message: "Whatever...
...hard to know. He's a pal of Jesse Helms, and Jesse Helms has suggested that the news he sees on CBS is not news that pleases him. I have a hunch that I understand what kind of news would please him, and I'm sure that I would not want to work for that kind of a news operation...
...Central America, a socialist organization that publishes a newsletter, Central America Alert, and tries to unite its cause with those of antinuclear, civil rights and feminist operations. Another group, called Madre, the Spanish word for "mother," pairs U.S. day-care centers with schools in Nicaragua, setting up pen-pal relationships between the children. Meanwhile, American parents and teachers send money and medical supplies to their Nicaraguan counterparts...
...woman who went to Viet Nam," says Wheeler, who visits at least monthly. "It has to do with the felt presence of comrades." He pauses. "I always look at Tommy Hayes' name. Tommy's up on panel 50 east, line 29." Hayes, Wheeler's West Point pal, was killed 17 years ago this month. "I know guys," Wheeler says, "who are still waiting to go, whose wives have told me, 'He hasn't been able to do it yet.' " For those who go, catharsis is common. As Lin says of the names, chronologically ordered, "Veterans can look at the wall...