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After resigning from the Vice Presidency in 1973, he wrote the novel "The Canfield Decision" |
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This character who loved Daisy Buchanan was born James Gatz |
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A low bed designed to roll under a larger bed, it was also called a truckle bed |
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Much of the 1983 film "Terms of Endearment" was filmed in & near this city, Nebraska's capital |
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Type of essay in which a newspaper expresses an opinion |
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Lt. General Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to be withdrawn from here |
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In '87 buildings of the new U.S. embassy complex in Moscow were found riddled with these |
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He saw Jacob Marley's face on his front door when he went home on Christmas Eve |
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The "roll-top" style of this has a convex cover that slides over the work surface |
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On July 12, 1861 this "Wild" West gunslinger killed his 1st man at Rock Creek Station near Fairbury |
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When Adolph Ochs bought the N.Y. Times in 1896, he adopted this motto which has been used in every issue |
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This unattractive Hun was known as the "Scourge of God" |
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It takes a 60% majority vote to end one of thes talk-a-thons in the U.S. Senate |
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Jonathan Swift character who also visited the islands of Laputa, Glubbdubdrib & Luggnagg |
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A chesterfield is a large, over stuffed one of these, often having scrolled arms |
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Closely related to the elephant, this "wooly" prehistoric mammal is the state fossil |
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In 1982 Gannett introduced this national newspaper that sold for 25¢; it's now 50¢ |
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To handle the trillions in our budget deficit, this bead calculator would need 13 columns |
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2nd to Walter Mondale for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination, he tried again in 1988--didn't work |
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Longfellow said John Alden didn't propose to Priscilla until he heard reports of this man's death |
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A sideboard is most associated with this room of a house |
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One of the 1st of these 160-acre plots in America was claimed by Daniel Freeman in 1863 near Beatrice |
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From time to time this magazine features "The Sexiest Man Alive" on its cover |
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Lyndon Johnson popularized this phrase to describe job programs for women & minorities |
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When a president is tried before the Senate, this individual presides |
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This grotesque Victor Hugo character was paraded through the streets of Paris as "The Prince of Fools" |
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As its nickname indicates, Nebraska's main farm crop is this |
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Most of the mail addressed to Pleasantville, New York goes to this magazine |
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The only Alexandre Dumas line listed in the Penguin Dictionary of Quotes index under the "A"s |
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