Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American reality have been stunningly varied, as Richard Lingeman makes definitively clear in his new history, Small Town America. Lingeman stalks the dream and the reality from colonial days to the present, from Town Builder William Penn's hope for "a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome" to the prepackaged sterility of some of today's contrived "new towns." Factory towns, farm towns, railroad towns, cow towns, mining towns, all march through his book. "New England towns with white churches and elm-arched streets ... fugitive transient towns with their tacked-on names...
Cattlemen in Kansas and Missouri are selling off their herds because of burnt pastures and a shortage of feed. Farther north, the Dakotas and eastern Montana have been enduring a drought for almost a year. In Montana, range lands were devastated, and crop losses were estimated at up to 90%. Worst off: winter and spring wheat, barley, oats...
UNLIKE MANY RECENT American movies, which often leave behind the sour aftertaste of burnt pizza, cute French petit-fours such as Coup de Tete impart no flavor at all. They slide down smoothly, provincial realism and honest emotion buried beneath the sweet, slick icing of a clever plot and anti-bourgeois humor...
...Hunt approached me on the next Ellsberg neutralization proposal. Ellsberg was scheduled to speak at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, and Chuck Colson [special counsel to the President] thought it an opportunity to discredit him. Could we drug Ellsberg enough to befuddle him, make him appear a near burnt-out drug case...
...tennis racquet with adjustable tension that permits cannonball serves and puffball returns was unable to find anyone to underwrite his scheme. One of the top promoters behind Great Plains Mineral Byproducts Inc., which claimed to have a process for extracting gold, silver and platinum from the residue of burnt coal, turned out to have a record of three fraud convictions...