Word: everette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Studies by Everett Lee, in charge of the investment program at Boston's New England Rare Coin Galleries, show that over the past ten years the average rare coin has appreciated 43.7% a year-far more than the stock averages. Antique dealers find that an increasing number of clients are buying furniture not only for artistic reasons but also as an investment. As a result of heightened demand, the price of good English furniture in some parts of the country has increased about 25% a year during the past four years. Dick Kritsky, a California grocery-store manager...
...member stations, many of whom are extravagantly enthusiastic. It has also shown Soap to the press, and somehow a five-year plot projection, or "bible," has been leaked. Religious groups have quickly created a dispute about material that has not yet even survived the ABC censors. Says Everett C. Parker, TV watchdog for the United Church of Christ: "It's going to be the opening wedge for sexually explicit material in prime time." Adds Al Antczak of the Roman Catholic newspaper Tidings: ''The desecration of morality, and of the Catholic religion in particular, is an outrage that...
...late '30s there was a strike of stevedores in Everett, Mass. The police broke up the peaceful picket line with tear gas. Those were the lean years for unions in America, and these members of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), protesting against conditions in the maritime industry, were banned from further picketing. But the police had arrived on a windy day and there was a school playground to the side of the dock. That day it wasn't only workers who were taken to hospitals; the children also choked and wept as the stinging cloud hit them...
...citizens of Everett were no more amused with the actions of the law than the strikers had been. But the workers' protest came sooner. That evening they got in touch with Luscomb and Sara DuPont, known as champions of progressive causes since before historians dignified those years as an "era." Luscomb and DuPont had shared the days when advocating reform often meant speaking from soapboxes to mangy dogs and small boys on universal suffrage, civil rights for Americans of every race and color, and the claim each man or woman had to earning a decent wage...
...Orange Line also extends up into Everett. Forget it. Oak Grove, the wrong end of the line, is a residential wilderness...