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Word: scouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remained active in sports, however, as a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also tutored pitchers at Harvard and other area high schools and colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Owen, Jr. Dead at 84 | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

Reagan chose to honor four young teenagers in his address--a group that, despite their merits, seemed like a random Boy and Girl Scout honor list. There is another group of teenagers, much larger, and, as long as we're calling attention to what needs to be noticed, much more deserving. These are the one million teenagers who each year become mothers...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: The New Rhetoric | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...keep a diary in a spiral notebook, recording doctor's appointments, visitors, the deeds of the family cats. "This was my history for my children," she said. "I would have loved to know my mother's life that way." She threw herself into community work, leading a Girl Scout troop, working in day-care units and raising money for the local hospital. Teaching full time, she won a reputation as an innovator, devising new courses on practical aspects of the law and on American women. Life inside Room 305 at Concord High was never dull. "In her classroom there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986 | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...island. As a boy, he worked in the island's rich coffee fields, but his mind was on the stars, which he liked to examine through a telescope at Honolulu's Bishop Museum. The oldest of four children, Onizuka was a star athlete, an honor student and an Eagle Scout. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then spent eight years as a test pilot and flight engineer with the Air Force. Onizuka taught courses at the elite Air Force test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ellison Onizuka 1946-1986 | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...blase lot. Says Crystal: "There was a little old lady standing next to Hines, and she says, 'Excuse me, can I get by?' She didn't even notice that we were in our underwear and had guns!" So what did Hines do? Like a good Boy Scout, he stopped and escorted her across the street. Maybe she just assumed they were making a movie--which, of course, they were, playing a couple of wild and crazy undercover cops in Running Scared. Hines, 39, fresh from good reviews in White Nights with Co-Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, has no fancy footwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1985 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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