Word: verne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost 80,000 people, many of them younger workers who could not find jobs in a troubled farm-based economy. A University of Iowa study of recent graduates found that less than half continued to live within the state. "It scares me that Iowa is losing population," said Vern Harvey, a Bettendorf builder, after a recent Kemp rally in nearby Davenport. Replied Pete Agnew, an accountant in his late 30s: "People I know my age have gone to find the rainbow in California...
...pirates. It's S.E. Hinton's rewrite of Leave It to Beaver. It is, in other words, a self-conscious elegy to the reckless dreams of youth. The film's four young friends -- sweet, smart Gordie (Wil Wheaton), take-charge Chris (River Phoenix), feisty Teddy (Corey Feldman) and fat Vern (Jerry O'Connell) -- are forever stopping in their tracks to proclaim, "I'm in the prime of my life," or "Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look after them." Does any twelve-year-old talk with such analysand self-awareness? The boys may be just scruffy outsiders...
...Mary Ellen Mangano '80 hung herself in her residence on February 15, said the county medical examiner, Dr. Vern Adams. Mangano was 28 years...
Interestingly enough, the San Antonio, Tex. native rushed for one-quarter of his season total a year ago in the season opener at Columbia. His 204 yards on 24 carries was the second-best effort ever by a Harvard running back, and the best since Vern Struck's 1937 effort of 233 yards against Princeton...
Whitaker's first homer was a three-run shot with one out in the third inning. Larry Herndon and Chet Lemon started the inning with singles and came around when Whitaker hit one just over the left field screen off Cleveland Starter Vern Ruhle...