Word: gingerbread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then Katie rolls over in the bed her father built in her room under angled ceilings on the top floor of their cozy brick, gingerbread-looking house. Her Barbie dolls are stored safely in their pink footlocker. Her snuggly stuffed animals are placed carefully around her. On the floor next to her bed is a pile of books awaiting the dawn of another gloriously unprogrammed, day-care- free summer morning...
Santas wrote poems and shopped furiously to prepare for this week's gift-giving. One inventive Santa based his gifts on current events, including the recent prison revolts in Florida and Louisiana. "He gave the men working at the grill gingerbread men and made his Santee go down to the grill and demand their release," said Michael T. Horvath '88 of Kirkland House...
...miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run along the tops of security walls, and chauffeured Mercedes Benz slip in and out of driveways leading to Gothic gingerbread houses...
...good mid-winter game" Butcher and Monson name their dog pups, she says. Often they name the dogs according to themes: Cracker's pups are called Ritz and Graham, and Gingerbread's pups have spice names. "Then we'll do books--shogun..." Butcher muses...
...part of the Soviet bloc, 40% of those convicted of narcotics smuggling are foreigners. In Czechoslovakia, potentially addictive drugs are readily available: more than 90 sedatives and pain killers can be bought without a prescription. Users mix the drugs in water to produce a cocktail called pernaik (literally, gingerbread...