Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love baseball. And I accepted this the afternoon after that disheartening loss in mid-September when I repaired to Fenway's rightfield bleachers--450 feet from the plate--with a raft of nonpartisan Harvard students. My team won that day, however, and I was right back on the band-wagon...
...Library (library and museum, that is) occupies a single large and dignified U-shaped building on a beautifully landscaped tract of 14 acres in Independence, Missouri--Truman's hometown. Independence was a boom town in the first half of the 19th century, one of the major outfitting centers for wagon trains heading west. By the turn of the century, it had become an agricultural and livestock center. Today, although Independence is steadily being pulled into the vortex of metropolitan Kansas City, its center remains a prosperous, pleasant county seat...
...those who find all this criminal activity unsettling after dinner, the networks will offer nostalgic dramas tagging after the top-rated The Waltons' family-bond wagon. ABC's The New Land, based on the movie, will star Scott Thomas and Bonnie Bedelia as Scandinavian emigrants settling in Minnesota, circa 1858. NBC's Little House on the Prairie, based on the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will begin with "restless but resourceful" Michael Landon (Bonanza), his perfect wife (Karen Grassle) and their three adorable daughters also settling in Minnesota...
...more exactly, the heroic domination of landscape by icon; it is essentially outdoor and declamatory sculpture. Thus the silver tracery left by Smith's disc grinder on the stainless steel only comes alive in sunlight; spotlights kill it. Smith's constructions of forged and welded iron, like Wagon II, 1964, also force themselves on the out-of-doors by their density as metaphor...
...install about 38,000 roofs and have sales of more than $7,000,000. A millionaire at 32, Prechter owns two other companies that specialize in auto-customizing work. He counts among his clients Folk Singer Glen Campbell, for whom he transformed a Cadillac Eldorado into a station wagon, and many Saudi Arabians, to whom he has so far shipped 100 luxurious Prechterized Cadillacs...