Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence persisted into early yesterday in downtown Caracas, where sirens wailed as authorities put out fires and battled looters in streets filled with shattered glass...
...tidy, working-class area just three miles away is Mandela House, a residential program founded by Thomas over a year ago for crack- addicted pregnant women. In a cozy five-bedroom home that smells of baby powder and food cooking on the stove, fingers that recently clutched glass crack pipes now rest upon distended bellies. From a back room floats the sound of a baby's cry and a soft, throaty voice singing, "Runaway child, runnin' wild, / . . . go back home where you belong./ You're lost in the great big city...
More upscale in taste and budget? Do you search for designer knockoffs and value the Liz Claiborne-Cable Car look? Do a $10 lunch and a $14 dinner (including a glass of wine) sound good as long as you get trendy food in a slick grill-bistro setting? Then hope that within the next two or three years yours is one of the ten or twelve cities that will get the Daily Grill, created by the management that owns the pricey Grill in Beverly Hills...
...announcement shocked friends and reporters, who describe Kitty as a social drinker who enjoyed a glass of wine with dinner. But the news came as no surprise to drug-abuse experts. Kitty, 52, had confessed early in the campaign to a 26-year addiction to amphetamine diet pills, a reliance she had overcome in 1982. Increasingly, counselors recognize that dependence on one substance increases the risk of abusing others...
...entire town is covered in a pure white blanket from sometime in November until springtime. Most of the buildings seem to have been built to complement the weather--either white with red roofs or modern wood and glass. On a lot of the streets, driving is forbidden, but you can rent a horse and cart. On a clear night, lying in the back of a straw-filled cart, listening to the horse clomp down the streets past restaurants, shops and little private ski chalets, you can see every star...