Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was the '60s spirit without the anger. The Frisbees and beer, the demonstrators working on their suntans, the organic food vendors and the costumes gave a festive air to the protest. For some this confirmed the feeling that what looks like a movement may merely be the rites of spring mixed with a nostalgic search for a new issue. Said Student Charlie Harrison: "I'm here to hear the music." Said Stephanie Klein: "I imagine this is what the '60s were like. It's kind of exciting." But most of those involved saw it differently...
...help of a telephone tipster. He suggested that police take another look in the storeroom at a seemingly innoucuous 4-ft.square wooden crate and a black footlocker. "You'll be surprised," the caller said. Police were indeed. When they broke into the crate, they discovered a mask and air tube for breathing, containers of fruit juice and water, a bottle for urine, pliers, bolt cutters, eleven smashed padlocks and $250,000 worth of loot, including rare coins, silver ingots and a case of 1934 French champagne. Inside the footlocker were three cement blocks...
...overcast in Worcester. The air was heavy, and the clouds were ready to explode. The traffic on Route 9 was light, but steady. On the shores of Lake Quinsigamond, people wandered about, looking for a comfortable vantage point along the rocky banks or hovering over the Tastee-Freeze trucks with visions of soft ice cream twinkling in their eyes...
Three more match points ensued when the Crimson dropped four of the first six tiebreaker points. At 2-4, Chaikovsky served, then hit four straight volleys, the last of which caught the net and hung in the air for the "bearded lefty." "He whaled on it, and it hit like the back screen," Chaikovsky said. At 3-4, Cornell missed the return, and the tension-filled match boiled down to one final, glorious, gut-wrenching point (is that one adjective too many...
...some observers it all seems risky. One is former Inuvik Mayor Jim Robertson, who predicts a flood of tourists. Says he plaintively: "We'll be the biggest used-car lot in the world. Every fool in an air-conditioned Cadillac will want to drive here, and one way will be enough. They won't go back over that road. They'll dump their cars here and fly home...