Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-tax state like New York (as much as 23? per package) and count the profits. This year, buttleggers should gross some $500 million, most of it pocketed by organized criminals. Concerned tax agents from eight government units (the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, plus New York City) guess they are losing up to $300 million annually in revenues through interstate smuggling...
...denied her adoptive parents' petition for the right to cut off the respirator that keeps Karen alive. Last week the Quinlans filed their first written arguments in what will probably be a long appeals process. Even as they were doing so, the case took a bizarre twist. New Jersey officials summoned William Dixon Zywot, 22, a companion of Karen's in the months before she became comatose, to appear before a grand jury. They wanted to question him about an egg-sized bump on the head, as well as a series of bruises on her body, that Karen...
...that. Born a year after Fitzgerald, two years before Hemingway, he confessed to being "fundamentally a happy person." While his disillusioned contemporaries were rebelling brilliantly as expatriates in Paris, Wilder, whose grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, sometimes plotted out his writing during church services, taught contentedly at a New Jersey prep school (Lawrenceville) and ended up a lifelong bachelor sharing a house with his sister Isabel in Hamden, Conn. Rotund, kind and twinkly to the point of Dickensian caricature, he was, as he pointed out, the sort of man whom "news vendors in university towns call 'Professor...
...City you pass what must be the world's biggest cemetery and a White Castle where they sell silver-dollar-size hamburgers for fifteen cents each. The traffic is bad and the view uninspiring on the George Washington Bridge, and I wouldn't give you much for Northern New Jersey, which smells bad. The only things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that it has a truck lane and a car lane (which must be some sort of ultimate triumph of highway social engineering) and that its rest stops are named after famous New Jersey residents...
Something clearly happens around the middle of Jersey. There are farms and things, cows, barns, fields, things like that. Philadelphia beckons from the west. New Jersey gives way to Delaware for a few miles, and then Maryland, the prettiest stretch on all of 1-95. If you've left early in the morning it will be just getting on toward dusk by the time you hit Maryland, and the Susquehanna River is lovely and smoky. Hills nonchalantly verge off into farms and thick woods. The land doesn't look patched together, but of a piece...