Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like all first- generation immigrants, they fear that their children will lose the old culture. They ask questions in their native language and their children reply in English. In Orange County, Calif., where some 90,000 Vietnamese live, the parents run shops selling jewelry and herbs, ginseng and pickled ginger. They worry that their children are wearing punk hairdos and staying out at night. They send packages of food to their families in Ho Chi Minh City. They think about the past...
Actually, Store 24 doesn't stock two liter bottles of the sodas that they carry in one liter sizes, and vice-versa Therefore, aficionados of ginger ale, which is only available in one-liter containers, must pay a higher price for half as much of their favorite beverage as dedicated Coke drinkers...
...liberal in child-rearing matters than her own parents, just as Spock's two sons think he was too conservative. Says Spock: "They say I should have touched, hugged and kissed them more. It's a different environment now." Spock had a harder time reaching rapport with his stepdaughter Ginger, 19. Says he: "The step- relationship is a naturally cursed and poisonous...
Alexei, 33, a mustachioed lawyer in a well-cut, ginger-colored suit, insisted on walking to an empty bus stop before talking: "As one of your writers said, 'There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.' He was right, so I don't involve myself in politics. Of course, we presumed Chernenko was ill, but who knew how ill? They don't give health bulletins here, you know. This isn't America; we feed on news from the grapevine. So it was a surprise to hear he had actually died. Still, things haven...
Moore is an old pro, author of such surefooted novels as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey. But in Black Robe he slips between James Fenimore Cooper and Graham Greene, between a visually rich adventure yarn and lip service paid to human frailty and divine mercy. Nearly four-fifths of the novel is spent on the trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just...