Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make a statement about waste in U.S. society, Economist David Osterberg, 35, of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, moved into a chicken coop nearly two years ago. The quarters are small (9 ft. by 12 ft.) but cheap: $40 a month for rent and electricity. Osterberg installed a glass skylight, insulation and not-so-spartan furnishings, including a stereo, color television, refrigerator, telephone, toaster oven and several Persian rugs. Says he: "Living this way makes me feel that at least I'm not part of the problem...
...honoring Abe is not just good politics, it's good business. Or so thought 22 entrepreneurs in Charleston, Ill., scene of the fourth Lincoln-Douglas debate. In 1969 the businessmen enthusiastically erected what they claim is the world's largest statue of Lincoln-62 ft. of fiber glass and steel that cost $40,000-on a site three miles out of town near land they hoped would become a national park...
...Grimond, who represents the islands at Westminster, called on Secretary of State for Scotland Bruce Millan to ask if the slaughter was really necessary. The U.N.-backed International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources added its own objection. In Edinburgh, anonymous protesters threw bricks through the glass storefronts of five companies selling hunting equipment...
Anywhere in China, the banquet follows protocolar rules as rigid as those of the minuet or mah-jongg. Beside every place setting are three glasses: a big one for beer and two shot-size glasses that will briefly contain mao-tai, a colorless 160-proof liquor that could power China's first moon shot, and a red, rice-based wine that tastes like a blend of Campari and cough syrup. The beer, bitter and warm, is served immediately and may be immediately sipped. The mao-tai and the wine, however, are reserved for toasts, which soon ensue, copiously, capaciously...
...that go round," as the rural Chi nese put it, they have an electric clock, a sewing machine and two bi cycles. The rooms are adequately furnished: three beds, a desk, a large table, rune chairs, fluorescent-light tube, two big jars for storage of rice and a small glass-topped dresser on which sits a bowl of fruit. After deductions for then-semiannual oil and rice allotments, the Ch'ens earn around $29 a month, though this depends on "work points," earned on performance in the field. They also raise some food - and possibly ex tra cash...