Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents would go to bed," Lily recalls, "and Richard and I would stay up till 2 in the morning. Richard, who was 13 or so then, would put on a satin smoking jacket, light a cigarette and march around with a glass of something. I really think Mother sensed that we might take a stick to her if she didn't stop telling us what to do. So she decided to stop mothering." Lillie Mae, who returned to Kentucky after Guy died in 1973, says simply: "Lily was always a stubborn child, and I went along with...
...anyway. He'd bought the California Golden Seals. When they didn't draw, he had to move them to Cleveland, and now the Seals-Barons still weren't drawing and a moving company was looking for $70,000-and that wasn't in the Cleveland till either. I mean, it was fun owning a hockey team, but this was absurd...
...couple of days next week. Connally is only 59 or 60 and may be keeping his hat in the ring for a presidential bid in 1980. (Connally lectures on Wednesday, March 16, at 8:30 in Science Center B.) He steered a neutral course between Reagan and Ford up till the convention, and may have actually benefitted by Ford's defeat and the shambles in which it left the Republican Party...
...mail has been reviving unmerry Yuletide recollections in millions of households, as the bills have cascaded in. From department stores for the toys, furs, watches, gowns, cameras, TV games bought with the "holiday money" that the stores sent out in November (how far away that "first payment not due till February" seemed then). From credit-card companies for the drinks so expansively signed for that day the office staff knocked off early to spend the afternoon toasting one another's health. In many households those bills will not be paid for months, during which time the families will have...
...Young's proposal, a clear recognition that the real split is between the Zimbabweans, not between whites and blacks. The proposal has not been accepted yet, but it does not bode well for the future of a socialist state in Zimbabwe. Both Zaire and Nigeria--who have been excluded till now from negotiation proposals for Zimbabwe--are heavily in debt, and most of their debts are held by American banks. The U.S. evidently hopes to play a much larger role in Zimbabwe than in the past, and that role is likely to be based on an effort to shape...