Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GROWING UP near the Florida panhandle, meant the inevitable spring break pilgrimage to Destin beach. Around this time every year, the diets began. Bananas only the first day; then strawberries the next, then apples the next. But at the beach, you could finally drink and eat potato chips--unless it started showing--and fast for the next day until your stomach was flat...
...afternoon of the shanty attack, hundreds of students gathered on the Green to rally against the vandalism. Early on the morning of January 22, two hundred activists occupied Parkhurst Hall, the college's main administration building, to protest McLaughlin's inaction. The president was traveling in Florida on a fundraising trip when the attack occured...
...seems the Maryland native will have to stay home making up for time lost during trips to Florida earlier this winter...
...comparable tributes. The floodlights that normally bathe New York City's Empire State Building in bright colors were darkened. Residents of Harlem petitioned Mayor Ed Koch to name a street after black Astronaut Ronald McNair, whose father once operated an auto shop on East 96th Street. All along the Florida coast, from Jacksonville to Miami, some 20,000 people pointed flashlights skyward on Friday night...
...shuttle crew member in 1984, he was supposed to make his first flight on Discovery last April but was dropped to make way for Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah. Rescheduled to fly on Columbia last month, Jarvis was again disappointed when he was bumped in favor of Florida Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson...