Word: craped
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...year since Elvis' death, and mourners are making the pilgrimage to Memphis and the grave of the rock king at his mansion known as Graceland. But the streets are eerily quiet as the evening advances. Only the buzzing of summer locusts in the crape myrtle trees breaks the silence. The police have been on strike for six days, and Mayor Wyeth Chandler, declaring a "state of civil emergency," has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew...
...straight front dive to a back jackknife and is now into the flip (comes by it naturally, chuckles a friend). It is a time for good nature, with the high crowns of the trees at their deepest green, the geraniums at their best and the lone White House crape myrtle blooming its heart out over in the southeast corner...
...foreign-currency trading halted as snaking lines of customers exhausted banks' supplies of dollars. Across the breadbasket of Sonora and Sinaloa states, armies of militant peasants poised to "invade" some of the country's richest farm lands. Near by, dispossessed landowners angrily draped their tractors in black crape. For a time, land war in the campo (countryside) seemed only a gunshot away...
...gone so far as to call King a "loudmouth," which is rather like Linda Lovelace calling Alice Cooper an exhibitionist. Riggs promises to "psych her out of her socks." Ah, he gloats, how about this: "I get the biggest funeral wreath you ever saw, and I wear black crape all over during the match and put a casket on the side of the court with a dummy in it. After she loses, I'll bury her once...
...York's dilemma is symbolic of cities across the U.S. Caught in an unprecedented scissors of soaring costs and limited incomes, many of the nation's cities face deficits that border on bankruptcy. The emblems of austerity are going up in city halls like so much black crape. In recent months, at least ten major cities have either declared a total job freeze or laid off workers. Municipal services have been slashed; the cuts range from the elimination of archery and synchronized swimming in Rochester's recreation program to Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes' decision to close...