Word: afton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mass itself was filled with pageantry and song. At the Offertory, farm families carried to the altar symbolic gifts of soil, hand tools and garden vegetables: peppers and zucchini from Beverly and Tom Manning of Dallas Center; potatoes and apples from Frieda and Ray O'Grady of Afton; ears of corn from Mabel and Art Schweers of Lenox. In his homily, John Paul praised agriculture and one more time called attention to the plight of the world's poor. He told the farmers, "You have the potential to provide food for the millions who have nothing to eat and thus...
...Parodying an oft-repeated line from Mondale's speeches, "We want jobs -not hot air," reporters presented Mondale with a T shirt labeled WE WANT NEWS-NOT HOT AIR. He donned it at the end of an Election Day program that took him from tiny (pop. 2,000) Afton, Minn., where he voted, to his dentist for a checkup, and a tour of a museum...
...Mondales live in an unpretentious old house that is still partially unfurnished. They rent out a spare bedroom to a college student, and the family cannot afford a separate home back in Minnesota. Instead, they share a house in Afton with Joan's parents. About three weekends out of four, the Senator is away politicking, but Joan says she is used to it. "I have my own life, a separate life," she notes. "We've never had him at home...
...Detroit-area phenomenon-the playing of tunes on pushbutton telephones-spread the fad across the nation and resulted in the publication by the Los Angeles firm, Price/Stern/Sloan, of The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook, which gives instructions for calling friends and playing for them such pushbutton tunes as Flow Gently, Sweet Afton and Strangers in the Night...