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Word: easterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well, as you know, my hearing’s been real poor since the accident. So there ain’t much of the service I can hear.”Was that silence I heard? I whirled around as I tossed him a “Well, Happy Easter!” and scurried back to the sanctuary. I gave a tiny prod to the left door. But only to hear a new deacon blathering on about Fellowship Stew.I turned back to the foyer as I looked down at my hymnal. To come out here to get what...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...This Easter, the live-chicken trade will reach its peak, and it will pass right through the innocuous looking U.S. Postal Office on Mount Auburn Street in Harvard Square. There, as at most U.S. postal offices, live baby chickens can be sent through the mail...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Packed onto the “FedEx Lives” service, baby chickens will be sent across the nation to serve as egg layers and novelty pets this Easter. An online search revealed dozens of online vendors where I could purchase baby chicks for one to two dollars a bird, plus 25 cents postage and packaging...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...bothers keeping figures, but poultry industry estimates suggest that millions of birds will be posted this year. McMurray Hatchery in Iowa alone packs 200,000 chicks a week during Easter...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Congress should act to prevent this abuse, using its right to regulate interstate commerce to stop the inhumane transport of animals. Students can avoid buying live chickens, or perhaps even the eggs they produce, this Easter. And the U.S. Postal Service should end the live chicken trade—a postal box is no place for a sentient being...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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