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…with the throttle up,” shuttle commander Dick Scobee radioed. 73 seconds later, millions of people across the nation watched the awful explosion spread across their television screens and realized that something had gone wrong before they heard the voice of mission…
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…selection of Dick Cheney as a running mate in July helped Bush keep his conservative base while addressing concerns that the party shows a compassionate face. Richard B. Cheney, widely credited with helping mastermind the U.S.-led military victory over Iraq…
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Category: /History
…a few years, he became a commercial success, one of the leading fashion illustrators in New York and winner of a number of design industry awards. In 1959, he began making paintings that depicted enlarged comic strip images, and in 1961 his paintings of Dick
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…both the first flush of luxury and the futility and bypassing of what is truly important that upward mobility brings. All in all, wealth does not bring happiness, and Janie shares that sad realization with Fitzgerald's Dick Diver. The suppression of Janie…
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…Macauley, also one of the greatest players to play the game stated “ Pete does things that make you say to yourself, ‘Wait a minute, let me see you do that again…” I haven’t seen a ball handler like him since Bob Cousy and Dick McGuire were in their prime, Pete…
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Category: /Literature/English
…presidential candidate, expressed dismay at "a culture of carnage" fostered by the industry. Lynne Cheney, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and wife of Republican vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney, echoed many of Lieberman's concerns…
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…gave Nixon with his nickname, "Tricky Dick." Nixon was in the US Senate for a year-and-a-half when the Republican national convention selected him to be General Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate. Much of Nixon's success had been built on the political…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…guilty. For example, his roommate at Elkton Hills, Dick Slagee had very inexpensive suitcases. “He used to keep them under the bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody would see them standing next to mine. It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept…
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…art seriously as a career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961, an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy, an enlarged version of the comic strip that was placed in the window of Lord & Taylor's department store. He…
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…of $188,000. The NCAA also bought Dempsey a $450,000 home near Kansas City as a Christmas bonus. Dempsey's predecessor Dick Schultz acknowledged he used the NCAA's $1.7 million Lear Jet for personal trips. The NCAA told the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals that the tax…
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