Word: firs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected. Moreover, when the fair ends in November, it will leave the city with a new 2,700-seat opera house (in the $11.9 million Washington State pavilion), convention facilities, the Canada Park, the Boeing Amphitheater (as a civic center) and the Bavarian Gardens, a decagon of glass, fir and larch housing a German restaurant. In return for the $78.4 million cost of the fair, the city already boasts 7,200 new jobs and a $200 million boost to the economy. More important, perhaps, Expo 74 will attract millions of people to a city that was well-named, and long...
...slacks, Miss Craven journeyed north by small boat from Vancouver into the Queen Charlotte Straits of British Columbia in search of adventure and material. Her trip ended at the top of King-come Inlet, in a village of the Kwakiutl Indians. Kingcome is a place of icy water, deep, fir-trimmed inlets, returning salmon, foraging killer whales, overwhelming beauty and, for the once proud Kwakiutls, overwhelming sadness. Even the young are not sure they can face going "outside" to school and trying to live like white men. But they all know that the old tribal ways are dying...
Christmas 1973 may well be remembered as the time when fir trees were bought not for decoration, but for firewood. In a year highlighted by Watergate, war in the Middle East and the resignation of Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, it is the ever-worsening energy crisis that holds the attention of most Americans. A world crisis has reached the shores of the United States, and no one is quite sure how to handle...
University officials have not decided whether they will enforce the guidelines next fall. "At the moment it is an informal agreement. We have to get everybody back together in the fall to reconsider and fir it." Archie Epps, dean of Students said yesterday...
...border to the north, beyond artillery range of the city. The Finns refused, and Stalin decided to use force. "The Finns turned out to be good warriors," says Khrushchev. "We soon realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew. The Finns would climb up into the fir trees and shoot our men at pointblank range. Covered by branches, with white cloaks over their uniforms, the Finns were invisible...