Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mountains of Idaho that it sometimes seems the sun sets between them and the nearest town. To many of the people along this route, that nearest town is Cascade, where Arnold Aviation is based. There, in a cheerful office off to one side of a hangar, Arnold's wife Carol receives shopping lists from the backwoodsmen on her short-wave radio; then she does all their marketing. These goods are flown to a breed of Americans who choose to live outside of time...
...many was that on the pitted black olives?" Carol was saying into her radio one morning when the temperature was 10 below...
...Taped to the wall above Carol's desk was a marching line of signed blank checks collected the last time Ray made the rounds. The customers trust the Arnolds, with good reason. The Arnolds are their contact, their cablehead to civilization. So intimate is this bush network, Carol can calculate the state of marital relations in the mountains by the quantity of condom orders, though she chooses to push this intelligence out of mind...
...hangar Ray was loading the plane. Four dozen eggs. A case of Old Milwaukee. A case of Budweiser. A roll of roofing tar paper. Cat Chow. Meow Mix. Grape-Nuts flakes. Bread. A broom. "Some of them out there are brand conscious," Carol said. "Some are quality conscious. Some you just know what to get. One cat at the Allison ranch, for instance, won't eat anything but Purina...
...that he run for mayor, and others volunteered to help pay for his defense if he is caught and tried. One World War II veteran offered to give the gunman his Bronze Star. "The story," wrote shocked New York Daily News Columnist Jimmy Breslin, "is more popular than a carol...