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...change from a wet 85 degrees outside to an air-conditioned 70 degrees inside. "It's not so bad once you get used to it." my friend said. She explained that she used to work there ("That's the stock room we used to call the refuge from the glue factory") and showed me the multi-colored ??? and the eighty-dollar boots. I began to realize why, in Cub?, they hand you clothes as you need them, cut pretty much like everyone else's. No one in any sane country would spill quarts of sweat on the sidewalk to load...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: No Country for Old Men | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...That is a thing you can't get in a chophouse-I mean; a spiced beef in which the jelly does not taste of glue and the beef has caught the flavor of the carrot...

Author: By Marcei. Proust, | Title: One Entrecote To Go, Easy On The | 3/4/1970 | See Source »

...which means hard labor, for permitting his three-year-old son to tear up a picture of the Chairman; another farmer got 15 years for "allowing his wife to humiliate Chairman Mao by putting his picture under a hen roost"; a third man, who used rice paste instead of glue to mount the mandatory portrait of Mao, got 15 years because cockroaches, attracted by the rice, chewed up the Chairman's picture. The fourth peasant got ten years for making light of one of Mao's favorite slogans: "Fear no sacrifice, overcome all difficulties to achieve victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Defiling the Image | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...that point, the most important man on every coach's staff will be his chief scout. How really valuable is that scrambling, rollout quarterback who has been dazzling college fans all fall and has the press clippings to prove it? Can that light little scatback or that skinny, glue-fingered end stand up against the agile brutes of the big leagues? Who are the sleepers, the unsung stars from little-known schools who will grab the headlines when they play for pay? The scouts' answers add up to something more than vital information for their teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Time's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...enough I stopped a couple of months ago. I have heard a lot about how you can't get hooked just blowing grass. I've got too many friends disproving that theory. We all started on grass, but they are now dropping acid, popping speed and sniffing glue. Getting high is a great feeling, but it is a greater feeling being free and seeing someone else, and not yourself, ruin his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 1969 | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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