Word: across
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here at the edge of northern Vermont, the international boundary lies right across a quiet but thickly settled small town. On the American side, the town is called Derby Line, Vt.; on the Canadian, Rock Island, Que. Local historians believe that the border runs the way it does because an 18th century British surveyor named John Collins was drunk...
That must have been quite a toot. The international border meanders by the freshly painted porches of stately, old Victorian houses, across shady green backyards, between sprouting rows of beans and lettuce in stubbly gardens, even through the shelves of books in the town's Binational Library, across the narrow Tomifobia River and the dusty, noisy corridors of the factory that spans it, and finally along the floor of the Bolducs' living room...
...with hundreds of howling citizens begging to pin whatever they can afford onto its breast is both repelling and gracious. In America, money seems to accomplish more than prayer, and the religious festival originated in its current form at the turn of the century, when Little Italies sprawled across cities like Boston and New York, full of poor but faithful immigrants...
...hunkered down in his seat, saying nothing. Then he stared across at me. "What are you saying? That we should just throw all this shit away...
Jerusalem, meanwhile, was embroiled in fresh disputes with Washington. After Israeli F-4 fighter-bombers lashed across the Lebanese border on bombing strikes that left 20 dead and 60 wounded, the U.S. condemned the raids with unusual severity. The State Department pointedly noted that victims of the weekend attacks had included women and children. "Roads were filled with motorists returning from excursions to the beach and mountains," Spokesman Hodding Carter III declared, "and I would just say in the strongest terms that such raids must be stopped...