Word: batch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Backseat Governor" spots tapped a well of venom toward Dukakis, who recently jacked up registration and driver's-license fees as well as speeding fines. In response to callers, workers at WCOD began making cardboard cutouts -- no redundancy intended -- of the Duke suitable for backseat duty. The first batch of 100 propped-up caricatures sold out immediately, and there were orders for 500 more...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS, VOLUME III (Columbia). Young "Satch" at the peak of his force and creative genius. Featuring Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Earl Hines, these 16 digitally remastered sides from 1927 and 1928 spearhead the latest batch of releases in Columbia's outstanding Jazz Masterpieces series...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS, VOLUME III (Columbia). Young "Satch" at the peak of his force and creative genius. Featuring Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Earl Hines, these 16 digitally remastered sides from 1927 and 1928 spearhead the latest batch of releases in Columbia's outstanding Jazz Masterpieces series...
...condensers and plastic piping during a "burn." Says Bernard: "If you set it up right, nobody knows where you are; it's no big thing." Bernard is a virtuoso of camouflage by misdirection, of hiding the obvious in plain sight. Once, this kitchen crew recalls delightedly, they cooked a batch on the shore of Lake Elsinore, a popular tourist spot near Los Angeles, tending the bubbling retorts in a round-the-clock paranoid marathon. "We came in four 'Vettes, pulling ten jet skis, followed by the RV," recalls Bernard, stroking a mustache that adds only slightly to his years...
...watching cars below wind up the dirt road and turn off to a ramshackle pig farm in the next ravine. Finally a Cadillac with four men inside bumps along the track. The presence of guards at a pig farm, waving visitors through, confirms the group's suspicion that a batch was brewing, its odor lost in the waft from the barns. "Don't ask me; it's not mine," Big John says. "That's a bunch of Mexican nationals down there, and I'm not of a mind to visit...