Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brag to friends back home that he saw Harlem and survived. Sure enough, on a bus trip run by Harlem Spirituals Inc., the black guide announces -- in German, the language of many of the passengers -- that they are passing the spot "where the late son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy was suspected of buying drugs...
...said the report sounded as if it had been edited by a gay-rights group, lashed out against Koop and led a campaign against him. Her efforts culminated in the boycott of a dinner in honor of Koop and persuaded two presidential candidates, Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Robert Dole, to pull out as sponsors...
...John Steinbeck; edited by Robert DeMott; Viking; 180 pages...
...Robert MacNeil...
...this charming memoir, half of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still...