Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More people than usual will be spending Christmas at home this year. The shortage of gasoline compounded by the unavailability of airplane flights will drastically reduce visits to friends and relatives. Not having to support freeloading cousin Joes during the holidays may save families enough money to take that Easter vacation they have always wanted. If used correctly, the energy shortage may prove to be a boon in disguise...
AFTER SUFFERING through several exasperatingly mild winters, New England skiers may be heartened to learn that Mother Nature has boldly predicted a return to the traditional Nor'easter style for this year: The wooly caterpillar, whose razor thin rings have so accurately forecasted the balmy winters which have plagued New England in the early seventies, checked in this fall with the largest and thickest rings in memory. Northeastern chipmunks and other small furry creatures are reported to have grown especially thick coats in preparation for this winter. And Clark's Trained Bears in Lincoln, N.H. has said that...
...case, the closer his writing gets to personal experience the more distant and nebulous and disturbingly superficial he seems to become. His depiction of a multi-media Easter celebration that he and others organized and held at the Boston Tea Party reads as though it were poured from a Waring Blender. It is not that Cox is slick or simple-minded. But rather, "bearing witness" or simply telling one's story does not come as easily or simply as Cox would like to believe...
...Pottstown or Reading. There is none of the good-natured loyalty that characterized the early Met fans--Philly crowds can be ugly. They curse, they throw full beer cans, they follow their victims home. One baseball player who fell into disfavor remarked, "They would boo the loser of an Easter Egg hunt...
Still, after only a few face-to-face meetings, they became engaged during Easter 1914. Almost immediately Kafka's letters began to carry complaints of headaches and increasing insomnia. By July the engagement was over...