Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harbury ended her strike, during which she maintained a vigil outside the Guatemalan presidential palace in Guatemala City, with a meal consisting entirely of fruit juice. Her strike was intended to pressure officials into providing a more complete account of her husband's whereabouts...
...word and muster support, the students quickly organized a "Protest for Freedom in Cyberspace" that drew 350 students and faculty members. (Pittsburgh in the 1990s, though, is hardly Berkeley in the '60s: the protesters last week politely applauded their opponents and then retired to a reception with cheese and fruit...
This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...
...attempt to avoid a hostile takeover, the Quaker Oats Co. will purchase Snapple Beverage Corp. for $1.7 billion. Quaker is already home to Gatorade, the leading U.S. sports drink. The acquisition of Snapple, known for its fruit juices and natural sodas,will make the firm the third largest producer of nonalcoholic beverages in North America, after PepsiCo Inc. and the Coca-Cola...
...fruit attack never came, but in his bid to unseat Charles Robb as the state's junior U.S. Senator, the retired Marine colonel and damp-eyed star of the Iran-contra hearings has been doing a lot of ducking and counterattacking in a campaign that has turned Virginia's political season into a freak show. The race reached new levels of notoriety last week when Nancy Reagan, during a public appearance in New York City, blasted North's veracity. "Ollie North has a great deal of trouble separating fact from fantasy. He lied to my husband...