Word: middleburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple spend weekends at their farm outside Middleburg in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and play power doubles at the annual Senate tournament at John Gardner's tennis ranch when they can get away, although Bentsen prefers singles. With the same understated courtesy he employs in the Senate, when a ball goes close to the line, he inquires with a small smile, "And how do you call the Senator's ball...
...wrong when the Scouting movement turned away from the outdoors," says Scoutmaster Irvin Graybill of Middleburg, Pa. "A Scout learns self-improvement and self-confidence when he's out in the woods, away from home, with his buddies depending upon him. There will be times when he misses the comforts of home, but he won't quit and cry. His ability to prove he's ready takes hold and becomes part of his character...
Gannett officials said the chain had to take a more active role in running the paper because McKinney, who lives in Middleburg, Va., was in Santa Fe so infrequently. Gannett Chairman Allen H. Neuharth said the decision was "outrageous" and "based on politics and provincialism rather than fact or law." McKinney declined to comment. The trial is set to resume next month to determine how the paper should be returned, and Gannett plans to appeal its loss. Groused one New Mexican staffer: "We'll be in a state of limbo for years...