Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the worst of the cold struck, some 40 migrant workers were taken from their flimsy camp shacks near Winter Garden by county officials and housed and fed at public expense for six days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that...
...Garden Shears. The robe is not a completely new motif for Dine. It goes back to 1964, when he saw an ad illustrating one in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he later remarked, "but when I saw it, it looked like me. I thought I was in it." It became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo...
...nostalgia flowed as a middle-aged man contemplated the chin-high stack of application folders piled on his Byerly Hall desk. And for a moment, you might wonder if Brad Richardson was thinking of asking Brian Petrovek to trade places with him this Monday night at the Garden. You could sense that he was once again hearing the crowd buzz and roar with delight for his kick-save of a slapper from the point. Beanpot fever will do that...
...hard Monday night to see Harvard crush Boston College in the last 30 seconds of their first-round Beanpot Tourney game. Don't worry, though. This Monday night you can stop studying your Chem 20 for a few hours and catch the finals of the Beanpot at the Boston Garden, in which Harvard will try to halt the hex that Boston University has cast upon them...
There will be other less important contests, such as the beer smuggling contest. The object of this is to hide as many beers as possible, successfully slipping through the Boston Garden security. Not only will you feel an incredible sense of accomplishment, but you'll also save a lot of money because you won't have to shell out a dollar for a Garden beer. The winning school has a huge psychological advantage before the game even starts...