Word: laird
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...unlikely heroes made their debut seven years ago in a black-and-white comic book drawn by Peter Laird, now 36, and Kevin Eastman, 27. Laird had been "scraping out a living" drawing eggplants and such for the gardening page of a newspaper in Northampton, Mass., when the editor of a local comic magazine suggested that he collaborate with Eastman, an amateur cartoonist who was working as a short-order cook. One night in 1983 -- and neither can remember why -- inspiration struck. Eastman drew a humanized turtle wearing a ninja mask and carrying a katana blade. The idea...
...might have lost half the Cabinet, certainly. Neither ((Secretary of State William)) Rogers nor ((Secretary of Defense Melvin)) Laird -- not because they were doves, but because they just thought it was the wrong decision -- would have supported an all-out attack in order to bring the war to a conclusion...