Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have one black and one Latin, and I'm the one." Someone mentioned Jim Rice. "Disabled list," said Perez. "Mike Torrez?" That made him sigh. With a gaze of pitying forbearance that is becoming a familiar look in all kinds of sports arenas, Perez explained, "A Mexican from Topeka, Kans., is not a Latin...
...consultant. Baseball is publicly standing up to racism. And, one year after George Foster was derided and expelled for bringing up the subject, the World Champion New York Mets have three blacks on the entire roster, four counting Shortstop Rafael Santana, a Latin who is not from Topeka...
...campaign speeches, Dole rattles off jokes, rapid-fire, like a string of firecrackers. But while he maintains that "I use humor to wake people up," he has often used it to cut them up. In 1974 he barely won re- election to the Senate over Dr. William Roy, a Topeka obstetrician, in one of the nastiest campaigns in Kansas history. Says Roy, who shares Dole's flair for vindictive rhetoric: "He was a slasher and a cutter. You almost felt he cut for the pleasure of cutting." Recalling how Dole ranted about "Democrat wars" when he was Gerald Ford...
...Sunday, The New York Times reported that Gary L. Taylor, a 32-year-old scholar from Topeka, Kan., discovered a previously unknown nine-stanza Shakespeare poem while looking through old volumes at Oxford University in England...
...regional and major lines are getting together in new ventures that fly under names like American Eagle and Republic Express. Last week an agreement creating Eastern Air Midwest Express went into effect. Air Midwest ticket holders now board planes in Topeka, Wichita and Des Moines that bear the name Eastern Air Midwest Express. At Kansas City they transfer to an Eastern flight going to another destination. When returning to the smaller cities, they fly Eastern to Kansas City and then transfer to an Eastern Air Midwest Express plane. In this way Eastern does business in towns in Kansas and Iowa...