Word: sara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother, the formidable Sara Delano Roosevelt, who had inculcated in him her own love of collecting and given him his first stamps. She was 26 when she married a widower twice her age, James Roosevelt, 52, a member of the landed gentry of the Hudson Valley and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt's fourth cousin once removed. Franklin was her only child, and she kept him in dresses and long curls until he was five. He was 14 before he first went to school, to Groton and then Harvard. He maintained what was known as "a gentleman...
Like Children's Author Beatrix Potter, Artist and Illustrator Sara Midda celebrates the English garden in delicate watercolors. In and Out of the Garden (Workman; 128 pages; $14.95) will give snowbound nature lovers and backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda...
...spring, LeBlond will trade her field hockey stick for a bat and glove to play softball for the fourth consecutive year with four of her roommates. Last year Sara alternated between third base, left field, and designated hitter while batting .371 and knocking in 15 runs...
...Sara was a strong positive force on the team," said last year's softball coach Kit Morris. "Her warmth and humor really stood out on a team full of warm, outgoing individuals...
...field. Harvard had just lost its final game of the 1981 season to Dartmouth, 2-0. The faces of the Harvard field hockey team are filled with disappointment as they head towards the locker room. The glum mood continues to hang over the team as the players change. Sara breaks the silence with one of her patented jokes and gets the team laughing and smiling again...