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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sencounters with air conditioning, television, popart or Mother's Day and Father's Day." Her fatherwas not against all fun--Lindbergh jubilantlytells of her father giving her a piggy-back rideto the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and of lettingher "on very brief and special occasions" braid "askinny gray pigtail that hung lopsidedly over hisear." Nonetheless it was Anne Morrow Lindbergh whoserved as the emotional mainstay for her children...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In an Aeroplane Over the Sea; In a Volkswagon of Security | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...costume includes a Fu-Manchu style mustache, a pigtail, glasses...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Urban Outfitters Chain Pulls Racist Costumes | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...first time, I experienced the thrill of winning a championship. Then I made the transition to a team sport--softball. By the summer of 1954, when I was 13, the softball team began to shape my sense of self. I played with the West Boulevard Annie Oakleys in the Pigtail League in Cleveland, Ohio. The positive attitude of the coaches--one of whom was George Steinbrenner, then a graduate student--made all the difference: they decided we could win a championship. They also taught us there were ways to play the game so we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REMINISCENCES: HEALTH SECRETARY DONNA SHALALA | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...show begins in the dark with chaotic, simultaneous mumblings by the cast followed by a booming declaration of someone claiming to be God. Once the lights go up, the rest of the play is pure sugary sweetness. A group of overalls- and pigtail-clad performers engages in a bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Greatest Story Ever Belted Out | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

Playing on a Pigtail League softball team (coached by George Steinbrenner) that won a Cleveland city championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cabinet That Sweats Like America | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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