Word: avocados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variety of such foods is vast. At Erewhon Natural Foods in Los Angeles, natural-food gourmets can find deep jars full of grains, nuts and buckwheat spaghetti. They can also pick up such exotica as whole-wheat bread with avocado and tomato filling, and ginseng, an herbal root from Red China...
...Hounds of the Radziwills. J'aime Joys. Menasha Troy. Ladonna Oldsmobile. Teas Eliot. Troubles With My Cant, by Green Grams. Against Impenetration, by Su Sanstag. Joseph Awfulsop. Devil's Avocado. Schwahili (the language spoken by Schweitzer). Dr. Dyingstone, I exhume...
...blue jeans ambled up to a cluster of others, aged five to 18, sitting under an avocado tree. "Does anybody know where the algebra book is?" he asked. It seemed there were only two, and one was last seen "on the blue table under a pile of crap and stuff." Pointing at a beat-up 1952 Chevrolet that reminds the kids of hoodlum movies, a boy suggested, "Look in the gangster car." The big kid eventually found the book-and someone to teach him a lesson from it. But a visitor had to ask: Is this education...
Exploring Family rents a 13-acre avocado farm for $450 a month plus the labor of watering 300 trees. There are only two rules: no drugs on school property, and no dogs inside the bungalow. The only schedule involves sporadic sessions on Women's Lib and natural science, and an optional morning meeting. Attendance is never taken. At one meeting a teacher named Anne (only first names, please) gently asked: "Can people start getting here at 9 o'clock?" Answer: "But we did, and nobody was here...
...foods sold in organic shops can reach for the exotic: carrot cupcakes, sunflower-seed cookies and countless varieties of honey, including alfalfa, avocado, tupelo blossom, eucalyptus, mesquite and thistle. Manhattan's Good Earth market offers 13 varieties of dates (among them Halawy, Khadrawy and Zahidi*), three types of yogurt, including goat, organic ice cream and pizza and 125 types of herbal teas. The strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and chicken can hardly be distinguished from those in conventional markets-except, aficionados insist, by healthfulness and taste. The most striking difference is price: 25% to 50% more than regular foods...