Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Team captain Phillips thus drew the honor of accepting the medal from his wife, who is president of the International Equestrian Federation. The team gold in the event went to West Germany, and the individual gold was won by New Zealand's Mark Todd, who, along with his trusty steed Charisma, repeated an L.A. gold- medal performance. "Charisma just rose to the occasion," said the former dairy farmer, who announced that the horse will soon enter a pampered retirement...
Stephen Kaplan operates a Long Island vampire-research center and, according to Weeks, has "spent a lifetime studying things that go bump in the night." Then there is Bill Steed of Emeryville, Calif., who dresses like a Wild West dandy, calls himself a professor of frog psychology and, at his Croaker College, trains jumping frogs. The school's graduates have been presented to Dolly Parton and Ronald Reagan, who, despite his interest in astrology and passion for jelly beans, is not an eccentric, says Weeks...
Supporting the arguments of both Ford and GM, NHTSA Administrator Diane Steed said that a "higher standard would have resulted in the loss of jobs for tens of thousands of workers." Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca attacked the decision, calling it a "mockery of the law" and "unfair to manufacturers who have based their product plans on federal standards." Chrysler spent $4.8 billion in redesigning its cars, in part to get fuel consumption down to the mandated level. Now, notes the frustrated Iacocca, the Government is changing the rules in the middle of the game...
...Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head, and an orange-haired hybrid of a buffalo and a gorilla, who walks like Charles Laughton's Hunchback of Notre Dame and talks like Grover on Sesame Street...
...with John D. MacDonald and Gregory Mcdonald. The first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed." The third is a former Boston Globe critic and the inventor of the flippant Fletch, whose snooping is sanctioned by a press card rather than a badge...