Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging a relaxation of New York State divorce laws. The Grocery Store evokes the atmosphere in which the author, the son of a grocer, grew up in Brooklyn...
Danehay said he was disappointed with the inability of formal channels to resolve the matter and added that he favored informally pressuring the grocer...
...wasn't that Dunne lacked status. His grandfather was a grocer who built himself up to community pillar, and his father was a respected surgeon. Dunne went to Princeton University and perfected talking through his nose, the better to honk down the lower orders. But once a Harp always a Harp, a lesson driven home by another old institution, the U.S. Army. German whores, barracks mates with tattoos, the general cynicism toward military routine, all validated his own outlook. Truth be told -- and Dunne tells it -- he is fascinated by life on the wild side...
...Friday, a bomb injured three Royal Ulster Constabulary police officers, while another explosion ripped through Northern Ireland's newest hostelry. The same day thousands turned out at funerals for a Protestant grocer and a British soldier, both victims of recent gunmen attacks. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke off her vacation and returned to London, where Ulster Protestant Members of Parliament are demanding that suspected terrorists be jailed without trial...
While the idea of a store so big seems quintessentially American, the idea for hypermarkets comes from France. A small-town haberdasher and a grocer, taking advantage of their country's lack of American-style supermarkets, teamed up in 1960 to start the first hypermarket at an intersection just outside Annecy, in the foothills of the Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash...