Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even so, as Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage, may carry an UZI instead of a sword and has a way of setting off unintended explosions of controversy wherever he appears...
Democrat Senator Alan Dixon was re-elected. In a governor's race that saw followers of Lyndon LaRouche earn a place on the Democratic ticket, incumbent Republican James Thompson beat off a challenge from Democrat-turned-Independent Adlai Stevenson...
...lacrosse coach in 1974, he was, at the age of 24, the youngest coach in the Ivy League. Scalise, who also took on the duties of assistant men's soccer coach, had previously been an assistant soccer and lacrosse coach at Brown for three years under Cliff Stevenson...
...never played soccer," Scalise says about his other sport. "I mean, I did kick around, but I never played on a team. I learned all about soccer from Coach Stevenson at Brown...
...state's dairy-farming community by going directly to the source. The commercial shows the Senator, accompanied by two farmers, pasting Leahy bumper stickers on the sides of some contented cows. To make the point that Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson has broken a number of promises, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, not normally known as a barrel of laughs, has been showcasing an ad that features a pair of legs doing a soft- shoe. The voice-over: "When it comes to song and dance, nobody's better than Jim Thompson...