Word: chowder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sightseers overran its quaint cobblestone streets and lolled on its beaches. Salty natives sneer that one-day visitors "come with a five-dollar bill and a dirty shirt and change neither." Nevertheless, local businessmen gladly pocket the $20 million a year spent annually on bus trips, postcards and clam chowder. In fact, the tourist trade is growing so rapidly that many "off-islanders," the regular summer residents, are concerned lest their historic hideaway lose its charm...
...muffins is a delight. The sirloin steak--the Pewter Pot's only substantial meal--reminds you of the good old days when steaks were thick and juicy, and also of a backyard barbecue. There are no fancy sauces, just good olde fashioned American fare--baked beans and clam chowder and suchlike...
Last weekend, for example, 65 members of Washington, D.C.'s 1,700-member Emerald Shillelagh Chowder & Marching Society flew to Stowe, Vt, for skiing; round-trip in the club's DC-7B cost $37 apiece, compared with a minimum of $80 for the same flight on a commercial airline. Over the same weekend and at similar savings, Denver's Ports of Call ferried 68 members to Nassau; Cincinnati's Travel A-Go-Go and Manhattan's Society of Sky Roamers delivered 90 members each to Miami for the Super Bowl; World Samplers of Dallas lifted...
...They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best pal as well as his persecutor. But he no longer cares; he would rather earn kingly status, even if the price is the gas chamber...
Steel Bands & Chowder. Among the industry pavilions, top drawer is the Telephone Association of Canada, with its Walt Disney-made movie, prosaically titled Canada '67, which uses a 360° to tal-involvement screen to project the spectators into the middle of a furious National League hockey game. Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion. Most popular restaurant: Canada's Atlantic Provinces pavilion, where diners can feast on excellent...