Word: kilt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen...
...best places in the world," quoth she. And why not? Diana, 20, and Prince Charles, 32, had just returned from their two-week Mediterranean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. Tanned and rosy, the newlyweds-he showing more leg than she in his Gordon Highlanders kilt-ventured down to a bridge by the River Dee on Queen Elizabeth II's Scottish estate. There they tarried for a session with about 50 photographers and reporters. Asked whether she made breakfasts fit for a King, Diana replied: "I don't eat breakfast." When presented with a bouquet of white heather...
Those whose attention spans have shrunk to the length of a station break are going to find Riddley Walker easy to bypass. The novel's first sentence, for example, is not exactly a conventional grabber: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." Even patient readers are likely to riffle pages at this point, trying to find...
...migration. Michigan license plates abound on the freeways of Houston, where a thousand newcomers -black, white, young and old-arrive each week. Resumes are piled high on the desks of employment counselors in Houston, where 70,000 new jobs were created last year. Local radio station KILT now promotes itself with the message: "If you're from Detroit... you've found your station in Houston." Apartment agents have installed WATS lines to serve out-of-state callers. The waterfront apartment complex near Houston, where Anita Cousins lives, is dubbed "Michigan Manor"; at one point it housed 23 Michiganders...
Leon Leonwood, always well-protected from the elements in his Bean gear, ran the operation himself until he died at the age of 94, in 1967. "He was strictly a 19th-century character," Bean public affairs director Kilt Andrews insists. But the stout-hearted State of Mainer, who hailed from the Bethel area, possessed at least a little savvy when it came to business. His chamois shirts, his touring canoes and campstoves, and most of all his Maine hunting boots supported a $4.75-million mini-empire when he expired...