Word: denims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head count. At 6 p.m., the operations officer of the penitentiary picked up his microphone and yelled, "The yard!" The cell doors opened, and the prisoners moved out into the enclosed yard?about the size of two football fields. The men looked like sailors: they were wearing dark blue denim dungarees and light blue denim shirts...
...door opened, slammed again, and before them stood their third roommate, Shapiro. Shapiro was wearing jeans and a plaid flannel shirt, a denim jacket and top hat. He walked over to Bell, grabbed a handful of speed, threw it down, and said, "Ah glorious speed. Ah the glory of Merle. When you're running down my country boy you're fucking with the fightin' side of me. Haggard is the quintessential philosopher of our times. He has much more to say to me than Hegel. He celebrates the virtues of rural life, of homosexuality in prisons, of staying off welfare...
...need science to tell you we share the same DNA as the buffalo and virus. Put aside the question of "genes." Let us stand before the mirror and put aside our denim jeans and see our animal heritage. A father will quickly defend his home against an intruder without using a textbook (except as a weapon). The mother needs no more data than a whimper or tear to rush to comfort her child. We act instinctually despite sociobiology's attempts to prove...
...governmental body in Washington has no head. Jimmy Carter has remained in Plains, Ga., and for all the marvels of communications, to most of Washington he is a brief bit of film at the end of the afternoon soaps, a quiet figure in blue denim, walking the town streets, hugging his small daughter and comforting his aging mother. His thoughts are edited. His voice is electronic...
...sized Cordoba and the popular new Aspen and Volare compacts. All of the Big Three are also getting a substantial lift from surging sales of vans and pickup trucks, which are up 40% this year, mostly because of their popularity in what some auto executives describe as the "blue denim" market. Says Chrysler Executive Vice President Richard K. Brown: "They used to be just work vehicles. Now they are among the most popular forms of modified, personalized transportation." At still-struggling American Motors Corp., rising sales of Jeeps, another favorite of the blue-denim crowd, are the company...