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Word: ende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Punji sticks are bamboo shoots whittled at the end to a point, and dipped in cow shit, and stuck into the ground on a tight spring, and covered with a vine and leaves. When you trip the vine the stick impales you and infects the wound. They don't have it in boot camp." He twisted his smile, turned his head slowly back toward the windshield and started mumbling a song...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...drummer, who keeps a steady, low roll. The singer emerges from the other side of the drums wearing an Iranian flag shirt and American flag pants. There are 50 safety pins mending the rips in his shirt. They do a song called "Take Me Hostage," and at the end, at the height of a feedback, the bass player sets the singer's shirt on fire. The bass player takes the pillow out of the bass drum and wallops it against the singer's chest. "Aggggh, it hurts," the singer sings, and closes...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

ANOTHER DUDLEY BUS trundles past, probably late and probably packed, but to make good use of your two bits you take it to the end of the line. Few Harvard students ever will, since the Dudley stops smacks in the middle of Roxbury, but if they did they would find the Silver Slipper Restaurant, "Home of Limbo Patties, Curry Goat and Empanadas," and the nest egg of Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Capitalism, at Work | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

Walk into any drugstore, although best is the fancy kind, with pretensions, such as are plentiful at the southern end of Brattle Street. An invariable, perhaps immutable progression in the arrangement of the objects will emerge. From the front of the store to the back, from the esoteric to the mundane and banal, from the pretty to the unpresentable, everything unfolds in a predetermined...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson kept the puck in the Terrier's end for most of the first period and went to the locker room with a 1-2 lead and an amazing 20 shots on goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Icemen Turn On Offense, Skate by B.U.'s Terriers, 9-7 | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

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