Word: kangaroos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his daddy's considerably-more-than-30-pieces of blood-stained silver money, a socialist German-language newspaper and start the Spanish-American War has New York faced such a challenge from the West. Things fall apart. Now what rough beast with the legs of a kangaroo, the body of a killer bee, and the shrewdness of a platypus slouches towards Gotham to be born...
...toss your way: Tonight at 8 you got John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys and Old Number 7 at the Rexicana Ballroom on Route 139 in Marshfield. To get to where the good ol' tunes are, you got to rev up the dune buggy, sport. (Tie your Kangaroo down first...
...blast a puck past an agile goalie. Soccer aficionados can pretend they are Pelé, since the same game simulates soccer. For would-be Andrettis, there is Indy 500 (list price: $130), which comes with a vrooming sound track that may make parents wish the children were watching Captain Kangaroo. The Fairchild Video Entertainment System ($ 150 for the basic unit, $20 for cartridges containing additional games) enables homefront Pattons and Rommels to blast the bejabers out of whippet tanks in the desert; or lets the player be a skeet shooter; or pits blackjack skills against an electronic dealer who tots...
...survive has been to conform. Cadets are demanding that they be given the same rights of due process that civilians enjoy under the law. Some young legal officers at West Point are siding with the cadets, claiming that hearings on code violations are often nothing more than kangaroo courts that flout the 14th Amendment...
...created pet names for all her correspondents. Her cousin Emma Vaughan was variously "Toad", "Todkins", and "Toadlebinks"; her sister Vanessa was "Dolphin", "Sheepdog" or just "Nessa"; her brother Thoby was "Gribbs", "Grim", "Herbert", or "Thobs"; and she signed herself just about anything: "Billy Goat", "Goat", "Goatus Esq.", "Wallaby", "Kangaroo", "Apes", and so forth. Over half the letters in this volume are addressed to Violet Dickinson, a six foot two spinster aunt who seems to have served as Virginia's foster mother. In these, Virginia's childishness reaches its pack...