Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jug of wine, a loaf of bread, a cow / Beside me grazing in the Harvard Yard / Oh would that Harvard Yard were paradise enow...
...Yellow Kid, considered by many to be the first bona-fide comic strip, contributed the phrase "yellow journalism" to the language. Wearing a bright yellow nightgown on which words were scrawled (forerunners of later balloons), the jug-eared little tough got away with sadism that is no longer permitted. He bashed his pals over the head with a golf club, pummeled a little Negro boy while a goat nibbled his woolly hair. Other kids followed: the Katzenjammers ("Mit dose kidds, society iss nix"), Buster Brown, Little Nemo, and the long-gone Kinder Kids, a strip exquisitely drawn by the cubist...
Dawn has also been suspended twice before by the Swimming Union-"the Colonel Blimps of swimming," she says. Cheerfully admitting an "affection for a jug of beer," she switched to wine to celebrate her 23rd birthday, while traveling from Rome to Naples after the 1960 Olympics. That night at an exhibition meet, feeling "a little tipsy," she plunged into the pool splashed 100 meters, surfaced-and discovered that she was swimming in a 200-meter race. The resulting suspension was lifted in time to let her compete in the 1964 Olympics, where she did her bit to annoy officials even...
Wheeling back onto the Turnpike, it is a 40-mile drive to Route 7 and then 12 miles south to South Egremont's famous Jug End Barn -- an overnight haven for the tired skier. Concentrating on social activities, Jug End offers all the facilities needed for the proper way to top off the first day of chapped cheeks and tired ankles...
...dawn of the next day could see the skier, hopefully rested and refreshed, either taking advantage of Jug End's 1600-acre winter sports facilities or burning up the trails at nearby Catamount in Hillsdale, New York...