Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bronx Zoo with four breeding beauties. Animal-rights activists fought the temporary move, but to no avail. They argued that Timmy is being used as a stud pony and not being treated as a "sensitive male." Katie, who is infertile, will be entertained by Oscar, a silverback from the Topeka Zoo, until Timmy returns...
...cities involved in the six-Cities study were Watertown, Mass,; Kingston-Harriman, Tenn.; St. Louis, Missouri; Steubenville, Ohio; Portage, Wis. and Topeka, Kansas...
...warm day in 1941 or 1942, and Wes Jackson, who was 5 or 6, climbed into the family's Lafayette sedan with assorted cousins. They drove from their farm near Topeka over to Abilene, Kans., for a family reunion at his great- aunt Ida Eisenhower's white frame house on Fourth Street, south of the tracks. Her son Dwight was either in Washington or Europe, even then on the edge of his great fame...
Inexplicably, Washington officials declined to go along. Mowbray's Topeka office relayed a message back to the Colorado regulators: hold off for a while. The day after George Bush was elected, the Topeka office started proceedings to shut down Silverado. The glaring coincidence has never been officially explained. Mowbray has said that he had received a phone call "from Washington" requesting the Silverado delay. He claims that he cannot remember who called...
...Danny Wall, the chief S&L regulator at the time, resolutely denies accusations that the delay was for political reasons. But James Moroney, a former supervisory analyst with the bank board in Topeka, has declared publicly that concern about Neil Bush "was a material part of unconscionable delays in taking over Silverado...