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20th CENTURY AMERICA

200

'In August 1974 he returned to his home in San Clemente, California, reportedly in a deep depression'

Richard Nixon

400

'When completed in 1936, it was the world's tallest dam'

Hoover Dam

600

'During every decade from the 1920s to 1960, some member of this family was governor of Louisiana'

Long

800

'In 1912, in Savannah, Georgia she organized the first troop of Girl Scouts'

Juliet Gordon Lowe

1000

'In 1987, 30 years after they were expelled, the Teamsters were permitted to rejoin this group'

AFL-CIO

CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

200

'Cow's meow
(3)'

Moo

400

'Hiawatha's honey
(9)'

Minnehaha

600

'False face festivity
(9)'

Masqurade

800

'Enormous, like a woolly mammal
(7)'

Mammoth

1000

'Gloomy, like the blues
(5)'

Moody

'80s ROCK

200

'In 1988 they released the concert tour documentary "Rattle And Hum"'

U2

400

'They had 2 No. 1 hits in 1980: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" & "Another One Bites The Dust"'

Queen

600

'In 1986 she was in "Control" with a hit album that included "What Have You Done For Me Lately?"'

Janet Jackson

800

'In 1984 they leaped to the top of the charts with the song heard here: ("Jump")'

Van Halen

1000

'After going "Roundabout" this group returned to the charts in 1983 with "Owner Of A Lonely Heart"'

Yes

WILDE

200

'Oscar Wilde was born in this city in 1854 & given the middle names Fingal O' Flahertie Wills'

Dublin

400

'Wilde's first stage success was the tale of this woman's fan in 1892'

Lady Windermere

600

'Passing through customs in New York, Wilde declared, "I have nothing to declare except" this'

My genius

800

'Wilde served almost 2 years in gaol in this town 38 miles from London'

Reading

1000

'This fellow playwright & wit said that in hard times Wilde maintained his "gaiety of soul"'

George Bernard Shaw

OATHS

200

'This oath was once sworn before the goddess Panacea, whose name means "cure all"'

Hippocratic Oath

400

'The president of Iran takes his oath of office "In the presence of" this book "and the people"'

The Koran

600

'In 1996, on behalf of 10,000 others, Teresa Edwards took this oath of sportsmanship in Atlanta'

Olympic Oath

800

'Term for Cold War-era oaths required of federal employees, union leaders & teachers'

Loyalty oath

1000

'This 1789 oath by the National Assembly served notice on Louis XVI & left the ball in his court'

Tennis Court Oath