Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LONG lonely sound of the Long Island Railroad came aching down and down the track. Floral Park, Long Island was covered, silent and pure. The lost women, bundled mysteriously in snowsuits and galoshes, slipped, slithered, splashed, cursed and fell into the cold new-sprung fantasies of Long Island slush. They called to us, those strong silent people of this frontier town as they crouched proud and good against the creeping creeps of Queens. They called to us through the black ladened skies. "Get out of town. Cut your hair." Strange, and lonely, their cry. Floral Park, Long Island, I long...
...among the hoots of the boy scout troops lost on an outing, in the deep sad faces of the traffic cop, we longed for you New England, even for your snow with your different quiet, and different peace, and acceptance of these mysteries of cold and ice. The Long Island Expressway writhes in disbelief--it seems impossible that stupid dumb precipitation, which doesn't know Anybody, has no connections, has never worked its way up, could come between it and the City, the Life, the Important Things. But you, New England, you somehow recognize the face of the weather...
...Well, we got stranded in this awful place in Long Island. And the people there, you wouldn't have believed it. And there was no way back to Civilization." The legends ravel...
...England, they cry, long-legged mysteries of girls on Garden Street, secrets of Schoenhofs, wonders of Wideners. The small warm rooms, and the man with the pipe, and the strange wild fury which rages in purity around the kiosk. Oh lost, and by the wind greaved, Floral Park, Long Island, I long...
While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...