Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only a ripple on the four-year tide of a presidential term. But Jimmy Carter seemed to be off to a promising start. From the cold-eyed cynics of the Washington press corps and the aloof observers of academe on to the "show me" proprietor of the Summit Hill bar in Hartford, Conn., the initial reaction to the Carter presidency was impressively upbeat...
Indeed, Summit Hill's Jerome Shea declared from his Hartford bar: "I've got hope for this guy-he doesn't have to get all dressed up like a dude. He did a great thing walking down the street...
Just then a small girl, probably ten or less, darted into the bar. She composed herself, then marched up calmly to the first table and began in a flat monotone, How many delicious candy bars will you buy made so fine (they melt in your mouth) especially for the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church of Wichita Kansas girls' track team. She droned on for about a minute, looking expectant. She repeated the litany three or four times, but nobody was buying...
...were watching the madness, the contrived madness of the Ford Youth outside across the thin air-conditioned glass membrane. But it seemed the true madness was inside. Ford disappeared into the Muehlbach, Harry Truman's old hotel, and the onlookers began to disperse. My friend and I left the bar. The little girl was still delivering her spiel...
...Clare, what were you doing in a bar in New York...