Word: 2a
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, the Quincy contest was not sanctioned by the American Pancake Eaters Association (A.P.E.A.), so its rules and violations committee cannot take charge and disqualify Tarnas while declaring the rightful winner. The A.P.E.A. has had to protect itself against such addicts. and Rule XII, section 2a of the Association's bylaws reads: "No contestant shall be admitted if under the influence of marijuana." Barton, Sir Flap-Jack, and I knew this rule as card-carrying members of the A.P.E.A. and did not resort to such stunts no matter how badly we wanted to win, and let me make this perfectly...
After 27 years and three wars, there wouldn't seem to have been any surprises left for Bob Hope, 64, in his Christmas tours for the troops. So they loaded him into a twin-engined C-2A "Cod" and fired him off the catapult of the carrier Ranger (acceleration from zero to 120 m.p.h. in three seconds), whomping him down on the nearby Coral Sea with the aid of an arresting hook. Hope came away laughing, but just barely. "I haven't felt a hook like that since vaudeville," he told 2,500 gleeful sailors. "I think...
...watch the leaves turn from, roads to maple syrup territory, seafood, flower and jazz festivals, a road for the Thanksgiving dash straight to Plymouth Rock. There is the original Mohawk Trail from Boston to the Berkshire Hills, brought up to date and dubbed Mass. Route 2. An alternate, Route 2A, links Revolutionary landmarks from Battle Green at Lexington to Concord's Minutemen monument. Route 20 shadows the Massachusetts Turnpike, navigates the Berkshires to the Tanglewood Music Festival at Lenox. Sturbridge Village, a few miles off the highway, is an early 19th century town beautifully re-created from steeple...