Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elderly man from Boston comes to Florida just to see the Red Sox, but never goes to Fenway. "The crowds are disgraceful there," he moans. "All the cussing and rowdyism. You wouldn't want to take your wife or girlfriend there...
North Palm Beach, Florida...
Every year just before Easter, they flock to Florida's beaches, hundreds of thousands of them, bikinis and libidos at the ready. After a week of the unimaginable and the unmentionable (to parents), spending up to $300 million on their bacchanal, they return to their college campuses, survivors of spring break. Says Dave Mazur, a Canisius College freshman: "Fort Lauderdale is like Mecca. You have to make the trip at least once. It's what everybody says it is --beaches, beer and bikinis . . . sand, surf...
...viewed the deaths with concern, others with callousness. Said Jimmy Hain, 21, of Farmingdale, (N.Y.), Community College: "Either stay on the first floor or get a parachute. I always pass out before I get that crazy." But the resorts are trying to restrain the sprees with stiffer law enforcement. Florida is raising its drinking age from 19 to 21, and Fort Lauderdale now prohibits open containers of booze in cars or alongside A1A. Still, the law and the weather did not always work well together. Heavy rains kept some vacationers inside hotels and motels, where maximum-capacity regulations prevented them...
...hell of a production," said John T. Drisko, a faculty adviser for the four-day event. Drisko, a social studies teacher at Salmouth High School in Salmouth, Mass., joined representatives from schools as far away as California and Florida...