Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone charmed by all those quaint es in "olde" and "shoppe" that adorn so many signs in America's historic "townes"? Evidently there is a citizen of Alexandria, Va., who isn't. The anonymous zealot set forth one night with a brush and a can of brown paint and x-ed out the superfluous es in the Olde Towne Flower Shoppe sign. Elaine's of Olde Town, the Kitchen Shoppe, and the Olde Towne Tennis Shop also soon fell prey. This cultural resistance movement is causing, well, some local unease. "We don't know...
...Wichita has another sister city, another gift and another problem. This time, Cancun, Mexico, sent the city a 15-ft. fiber-glass statue of a Maya rain god. The statue was to adorn the city hall grounds, but officials realized that it was too fragile for the extremes of Kansas weather and too tall to fit inside city hall. It now rests in the basement of city hall while authorities search for a new site...
...science lab class that has just tasted and discarded a conditioned-in-the-bottle ale. The only college course on brewing in the U.S., the lab comes under the auspices of Davis' food-science department, itself part of the university's highly touted agricultural college. Beer posters adorn the walls and beer bottles crowd the shelves, but brewing is no frothy business here. Only students who have taken biochemistry, microbiology and the like can take the fall lecture course and the lab work that follows...
...Radcliffe College Centennial T-Shirt Competition" will award $100 for the best slogan and design commemmorating the Centennial. The winning design will adorn "Radcliffe Red" T-shirts to be sold as centennial memorabilia...
...these treaties by North American governments and the massacres of peaceful Indian nations, the reservations have become concentration camps surrounded by armed guards. Indian people are new fed surplus army rations, and live in migrant-type housing, which frequently has no running water or plumbing facilities. Stark tarred shacks adorn barren, dusty streets littered with bottles and soda cans...