Word: birching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamie, who based his campaign on ideological and personal mimicry of the President, is tainted by his extensive and long standing links to radical right groups. Responding to reports that he is a fellow-traveller of the John Birch society and the Liberty Lobby-two antisemitic and racist extremist groups-Shamie has taken the easy way our: blame it on the press. It just doesn't wash. Shamie has yet to provide any concrete evidence that proves he has not spent his entire professional career hovering near the lunatic fringe of right-wing politics...
...Padres were denied the sensation of a pennant race. This helps explain the town's relative calm so far, though it is a relatively calm town, "more Midwestern in principle than Los Angeles," according to Garvey. Three players, including Pitching Ace Eric Show, have publicly embraced the John Birch Society without encountering much local disapproval. Also it was a summer of mean news in San Diego: 21 people massacred at the San Ysidro McDonald's, two police officers killed in a quiet park, and the mayor is under indictment for perjury. More than the baseball standings seem akilter...
...ancient and bruised Boston Whaler was coughing across one of the prettiest lakes in New Hampshire−Squam Lake, called Golden Pond in Henry Fonda's last picture−when a loon swam out of a birch-lined cove. "It has a chick, said Jeff Fair, slowing the boat and putting the glasses on the bird. "No, two chicks. One is riding on the adult's back." To Janis Minor, sitting in the bow, Jeff said, "You've got your work cut out. Go around and warn the homeowners...
...three miles beyond what was once the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, cottonwood and birch trees stand in 9 ft. of brackish water, their trunks burned and their branches leafless. Dead wood and decaying, bloated carp litter the shore. Roads are flooded out, towers for power lines sit in muddy pools, and farther south, the famed Saltair resort with its Moorish-style gold domes is shut down...
...scene that continually recurs shows the poet's home a small wooden house by a lake, surrounded by birch trees, cattle, and unknown human figures in the eerie twilight of a summer night...