Word: toad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason may be that "everybody is always shoving things in his face." Occasionally Jackson comes out to the yard. Sometimes he will ride a red-and-white motor scooter. Sometimes he will take his electric car for a spin. It is a close copy of a vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. Outside the iron gates, the fans on the street can see him whizzing along the driveway, playing by himself, and at those times, he is too far away for anyone to see his face at all. ?By Jay Cocks. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles...
There was a chuckle or two at Toad's last summer when Walter Mondale showed up on a beastly hot day to commemorate former Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who was born down the road. Everybody was sweating but Mondale seemed to be sweating the most. The consensus at Toad's was that Mondale took fright at the possibility of being linked to the leftist politics of Wallace, who when dropped by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 went off and formed a radical third party. The ceremony decorously dwelled on Wallace's contributions...
...that's another thing. The Democratic powers at Toad's declared one morning: "No more kinfolks. If the candidates themselves don't come, they can forget it." Ethel Kennedy and her son Joe were good crowd builders back in 1980 when they were working for Teddy. Greenfielders have got blasé. They didn't turn out for Glenn's daughter, Cranston's son or Hart's wife...
...prospect of seeing a real live network anchor on Iowa soil all that great. One of the boys at Toad's slipped in the ultimate putdown: "Watching an anchorman is like watching an astronaut in orbit: they are both weightless...
There is only one outlander eagerly awaited at Toad's. Spring will be coming around in a couple of weeks, all flirty and capricious. But in the end lowans know she'll settle down and the whole state will be back doing what it does best-growing things...