Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep...
Heavy rains in California savaged the vegetable crop and were largely responsible for April's heady 30% rise in the price of lettuce. Fresh fruits are also expected to climb by 15% to 16% during the year. Pork production was expected to grow by 13% this year, but cold weather made the animals more susceptible to disease, and growth projections have now been scaled back to from...
Unlike almost any other sport, kite flying involves no standardized equipment or rules; it appeals equally to the mystic and the scientist, the fresh-air buff and the do-it-yourselfer who devises and builds his own bird of balsam and plastic. The variety of kites aloft can make a city sky look like a sociocultural anthology of man's immemorial urge...
...freshman class has not always shared its first-year experiences over meals in the Union. It fact, it has been ten years since the whole freshman class was housed in the Yard, and then it was only fresh men. "I was a freshman in the Yard when that plan was in effect," says Dean Fox, fondly recalling his freshman days. "If you compare the freshman experience at Harvard to that at other colleges, you find we spend a tremendous amount of time and effort on the freshmen," Fox adds, implying that he finds many positive aspects to his plan, which...
...Emeritus, and a member of the task force which last year studied student life, says it is unfair to house freshman women, who mature more rapidly than males, with freshman boys. He prefers the older system whereby women lived at the Quad with the upper classes and the Harvard "fresh men" lived in the Yard...