Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves at bay." He seems accommodating, but not until the next day are we assured that it will be possible to cross into Burma in the company of a courier of the Karenni forces. The courier, when he appears, is smiling. On his left hand, set in a ring of soft orange gold...
Much of the northern half of Brooklyn is turning into Bushwicks. The white neighborhoods in the south half--Midwood, Flatlands, Brighton Beach, Mill Basin, Canarsie, Bay Ridge--look north and fear, because the poverty seems to be creeping ever closer. And for many of these people there's nowhere left to run. They're willing to make their stand, as they put it, because somebody has to. The older people especially, with fixed incomes and meager lives, lock themselves in at night to avoid becoming victims and tremble at approaching footsteps in the day--they have no place...
Still, Murray calls Benson a player he "hated, couldn't stand" in high school, when Murray was captain of the Natick High team which was runner-up to Needham last year in the Bay State League. The two seem to have resolved their former rivalry as they are both linemates and roommates. Benson even designs to label Murray "the fastest skater on the team and a great forechecker as well as a superb penalty-killer." They have combined for 10 goals and 10 assists so far this year...
...laid back," "I know where you're coming from" and "Go with the flow." Rosen was abetted by Novelist Cyra McFadden (The Serial), a resident of Marin County, where, she claims, such "mindless prattle" rises before it heads East to become a major polluter. Her prototype Of the Bay Area language abuser is a student to whom she assigned a Ray Bradbury short story. "I can't relate to the dude," he complained. Hade he read the piece? Actually, no, he admitted, "I just flashed...
Since its shoestring beginning in an Ocean Park, Calif., garage, Synanon has done very well by itself. The taxexempt, nonprofit organization has 883 adults and 300 children living in luxury on two ranches in the Sierra foothills, beach-front property in Santa Monica and Tomales Bay and in a converted San Francisco paint factory. Most members pay a minimum $400 a month for room, board and uplift, but some contribute much more. One woman has donated more than $1 million. Synanon's assets, including ten aircraft and 400 cars, trucks and motorcycles, total almost $30 million. Its advertising...