Word: clamming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning very early Saturday morning, October 6, thousands of people will join in a mass nonviolent occupation of the Seabrook nuclear plant construction site. The Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook, an outgrowth of the Clamshell Alliance, called the occupation. Local Clam groups around New England are the main sponsors, and over 80 other groups around the nation have endorsed the action. The goal of the occupation is to enter the plant site and physically prevent further construction by remaining there indefinitely. Our strength lies in our numbers, and in the clarity of our vision-- to create, with the help...
...restaurants have not tried to match the marketing razzle-dazzle of such newer competitors as McDonald's and Burger King. Also, their prices are as robust (a "Tendersweet Clam Plate" goes for $4.75) as their food is plain. As one old saw puts it, "Howard Johnson's ice cream comes in 28 flavors and its food in one." In motor lodges the company has fallen behind the quality standards of such major rivals as Holiday Inns and Marriott. Though the company has had record sales and profits for four years running -1978's earnings were $33.6 million...
...England clam chowder ($1.75) is a serving so small it's hardly worth calling it a bowl. The chowder consisted of pasty lukewarm stock with a few chunks of clam miserably clinging to the bottom. There weren't even many potatoes...
...Power to the Periphery of the Party Circuit over the peculiar Quaalude prescription." Ear says people are upset that other actors in that scandal suffered no disgrace and still enjoy the privileges of a White house office. "Ear refuses to get excited about all this. In fact, it is clam. Very, very clam indeed. Very clam." Changing tacks, she chatters about plans for the White House Christmas bash. "Ear's invitation got lost in the mail, again. It is still quite clam...
...Hannah's latest collection Airships. And Pomeroy's insistent belief that Jesse James is his spiritual guardian corresponds closely to the outlaw Indian Geronimo in Hannah's Geronimo Rex. But this is McGuane's own, and nobody, not even Hannah, deals better with the South of Holiday Inn Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then, overcome with remorse, tips over in the palm shadows for a troubled snooze." The violence is lovingly plotted, coldly calculated, but respected. Councilman Peavey sends...