Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of town where entrepreneurial skills appear to possess no symmetry, no balance. Commerce seems based forthrightly on everything the traffic will bear, all under one roof. One does not find, for instance, a record-and-tape store so much as one finds an establishment whose sign proffers: SWEET CORN, LOCAL GROWN. WE MAKE KEYS. Gasoline stations offer beer, shoes, crickets, night crawlers and, in season, onions. The onion accounts for $9 million worth of the local economy each year. The harvest ended last month...
...Vidalias, real and counterfeit. The growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion. The grower's name, address and telephone number appear on the tag. To accept a bag of onions without all this pedigreed labeling, according to Grower Jack Todd, is to risk buying something less than a Vidalia. Todd says he can tell...
Cranston, at 69 the most ebullient and energetic campaigner in the pack, has been able to make hay with the straw polls. "I love 'em," he gloats. And well he should. His straw-poll upset of Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there...
...years, Chicago and Los Angeles have been locked in a kind of wrestling match over which one is second only to New York in size and influence. But Chicago may now be caught in a Golden State bear hug from which it cannot escape. Statistically speaking, the Windy City may no longer be America's second city. A new population tally, conducted by Los Angeles officials but thought to be reliable, puts Los Angeles ahead by 36,222, or 3,041,294 to Chicago's 3,005,072. Not imperiled is Chicago's enduring sense of superiority...
...Vries sets the moral equilibrium of an entire nation teetering in its aftermaths. These include pregnancy, mutual guilt, Tony's frightened vision of what marriage to his teacher might mean ("Would I be allowed to whisper and chew gum in the house?"). Before she goes home to bear his child in Kalamazoo, Miss Doubloon strikes a defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign...