Word: corncobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eden (1981). Now at work on a one-volume life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgan says, "I think about him constantly. The subject is something that you can't get out of your head. They said that when William Manchester was working on MacArthur he started smoking a corncob pipe and walking on the heels of his feet. That didn't happen to me. But I did learn something from each of my subjects." The lessons, however, do not impinge on the time he takes for research: "You almost have to be an intelligence service that grades information...
...celebrate the famous victory of General Douglas MacArthur at the title harbor during the Korean War, when he sneaked an army in behind his enemy, cutting them off from home and supplies, Inchon is, as military spectacles go, one of the sorriest in movie history. Behind the sunglasses and corncob, underneath the plastered-down hair, is Laurence Olivier as the general, unable to cut loose either with an approximation of MacArthur's grand manner or the satire of it he seems sometimes to want to try. On the ground in Korea, caught in a withering enfilade of clich...
...wording of the law is fuzzy, classifying paraphernalia not by what it is but by what it is used for. A corncob pipe with "Get High" or "Marijuana Smokers Do it Better" lettered on the bowl, for example, would be considered illegal. Howard whitehead, a spokesman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office, says that as with any new statute whose language is difficult, a few test casts in court are needed to determine how far-reaching the new law is, exactly what someone has to sell to violate the law, Whitehead said that the law will be difficult...
Although Bertolino plans to cut down the size of his paraphernalia counter by March, he says the fantastic array of football-shaped power hitters. onyx, wood and corncob papers: mirrors for cutting cocaine: glass pipes tiny spoons scales brass razor electric water pipes smoke v pipes and ginseng powder will provide ample loopholes for storeowners who want to work around the law. Bertolino has added cigarettes to his inventors which he says will probably allow him to carry rolling papers rolling machine and ginseng powder...
...dinosaur next to the Highway) thread through station wagons and campers jamming Main Street. Once inside Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys hundreds upon hundreds...