Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television and magazines dedicated to "togetherness." It was a time of young marriages, early pregnancies and "coping." Rabbit's species, in fact, was rapidly proliferating in millions of small garden apartments from coast to coast. At 26, his exploits as a high school basketball star had faded into barbershop statistics. He was wed-locked to Janice Springer, the dim little broad who had sold nuts at the five and dime. He had fathered a daughter and a son, inheritor of those "little Springer hands" that preclude championship ball control. In his first escape attempt, Rabbit sought solace with...
...churchly calendar of saints' days may have become obscure to many; yet Americans have cloaked nearly every day, week and month of the year with a quaint secular significance. All of Illinois, for example, can look forward to June as Fight the Filthy Fly Month; Georgia observes Barbershop Harmony Week, Conway Twitty Day, and Georgia Hat Week...
...explosion occurred in the original section of the Capitol, begun during George Washington's term in office and restored after the building was burned by the British in 1814. Besides the damage to the men's room, the Senate barbershop and the back-corridor hideaway offices of Senators Everett Jordan, Caleb Boggs and John Sparkman were damaged. Architects and engineers will spend weeks searching for damage around the fragile west front of the building, which is already buttressed to support cracks in the sandstone facing...
...injured in the blast, which occurred on the floor below the Senate chambers. The explosion caused an unestimated amount of damage to a washroom, the Senate barbershop and adjoining offices...
...three-wheeled, cycles sip lukewarm beer at corner food stalls as children play tag near their feet. A closer look, however, shows that Soul Alley is a very special place. The children being bounced on their mothers' hips have unmistakably Afro-Asian features. A sign in the local barbershop proclaims: THE NATURAL LOOK HAS ARRIVED. Green Army fatigues hang from balcony railings to dry in the sun. Black G.I.s talk and laugh, their arms around slight young Asian girls...