Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest producer of ether, traffickers have decided to import coca paste to Miami and process it locally. Over the past 18 months, authorities in Miami have closed down cocaine refineries at the rate of one a month. In January, an elderly woman strolling along the seashore in Palm Beach County almost stumbled over a dozen Army duffle bags. Suspicious, she called the sheriff's office; when the authorities opened the bags, they found almost half a ton of unprocessed coca...
Bennett suggested that in order to make up the loss in federal and, students should give up stereos, cars, and three-week vacations at the beach. It should hardly be necessary to point out that those who would be hit the hardest by the proposed cuts would have little luck selling the above-mentioned objects for some ten or twelve thousand dollars, even if they had them...
...somewhere in your peripheral vision. Surely there was drama enough in the pre-curtain champagne slosh on the building's top floor. Middle-aged men peered eagerly at younger females, while college men gazed longingly at older women. The lines were vintage prep--"It was only a man-made beach, but the temperature's been great all week, in the seventies and eighties." Less seasoned spectators drank too quickly. Only with the third summons did the crowd move reluctantly downstairs to the theater. Finally, after a somewhat dazed Man of the Year Bill Murray collected a brass...
...assume the dimensions of conspiracy. The black authorities seem determined to find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels free to slander the dead woman: "Daht ol boney-bag he call his muddah grabbin aht every blahck boy on de beach." As bad feelings spread and red tape unreels, the proprietor must store his mother's body in the kitchen freezer, prompting a walkout by the staff...
...scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast. The outsider marvels at the smells that begin simmering from the cooking pots. He also recoils when he sees a comrade slice the neck of a live hawksbill turtle and use the dying creature's blood to flavor the stew...