Word: yakima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn't one to sound off on his own," said a friend, Bill Almon of Yakima, Wash. But once the conversation turned to space, Almon added, "you could see the gleam in his eye, and he would want to talk about...
...Yakima Valley of southern Washington is 1,000 miles from the Mexican border. But so many former migrants have settled there after coming north to $ pick the valley's apples, pears and cherries that no one thought it odd when the governor of the Mexican state of Michoacan made a speech to them last spring over the local Spanish-language radio station. The governor, or so went the local joke, was only trying to stay in touch with his constituents...
...Larson Yakima, Wash...
...making of the picture kept being put off, and the stockbroker's son from Yakima, Wash., held on to his dream of playing Paul Atreides, the charismatic messiah of the Dune pentalogy...
...commotion welcoming all the talented newcomers, the ski world seemed almost to forget about the 26-year-old twins from Yakima, Wash., whose careers had proved that U.S. men skiers could beat the world. Phil had won the World Cup three years in a row, and he had taken a silver in slalom at Lake Placid. Steve had won the G.S. world championship in 1982. But in the Sarajevo G.S., these anchors of the U.S. team could do no better than eighth and 17th. They were quitting after this season, they said, and they seemed tired of skiing. Poor...