Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next morning, over steak and eggs and fresh copies of the Rocky Mountain News, passengers who were strangers a few hundred miles back are now chummily addressing one another by first names. The Cal Zephyr begins its 118-mile run through California's ruggedly beautiful Feather River Canyon. Rushing by waterfalls, thick stands of ponderosa pines and beds of bright orange poppies, the train passes Rich Bar and Oroville, towns that boomed into use in the days of the great gold rush...
...ghetto community, NBC's Julia is a white TV show played in blackface. Hoping to bring some black truth to television, Chicago's public channel, WTTW, this winter is carrying a new series titled Bird of the Iron Feather...
...teammate is little, dark-haired Claire Rodgers, 19. Claire is a feather weight, weighing in at only 108 pounds. No room down there for a few dozen pancakes...
...stopped at Colonel Sander's so he could get a chicken dinner, he came out and said, "Jesus, what a place, I've never seen a place like that before" and when the rain turned to snow halfway up the canyon, he said, "Jesus, someone's shaking out a feather bed upstairs, don't you think?" and then he asked me where I went to school and when I got out he said, "Jesus, you were great to have along and whatever you are out of school, you're twice as good...
...when you're through shopping what happens? You bring home your rabbit skirt or your feather duster and it's the wrong size. Or you get a tie for Joe, Bobby Vinton for Nancy, a blue chip for Dad-and Mom feels left out. And of course most sale items are non-returnable. Shopping is fun, but what can you get that the whole family can enjoy...