Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who are overweight and want to reduce, a lot of talk about eating only evades the issue. Exercise is the solution to obesity. See that jogger running round the lake, America? He knows. Look at him and eat your heart...
...into the city. As a result, emergency food supplies flown in by various relief organizations piled up in hangars at Managua's Las Mercedes Airport while profiteers within the city sold bread at $2 a loaf and water and soft drinks at $2 a bottle (the water in Lake Managua is too polluted to drink). Children sat in the streets, putting their hands in mud puddles and then licking the moisture. Rioting broke out among a mob of hungry survivors when a supermarket owner threw open his doors...
...this was more than apparent last week, as the party held its 74th annual meeting at Salt Lake, a desolate flat on the edge of Calcutta. Eighteen months ago, the flat was jammed with thousands of Bangladesh refugees. Last week between 30,000 and 40,000 party regulars met in a $700,000 tent city as princely as a Mogul encampment. Party Leader Indira Gandhi was housed in an elegant $107,000 "hut," which aides hastened to explain would serve as a guest house for a housing project to be built on the site. Nonetheless, New Delhi newsmen were stunned...
From his 25th-floor office, Judge Saul A. Epton, a soft-spoken and slightly owlish man of 62, surveyed the wintry expanse of Lake Michigan and reflected on his new post in the circuit court of Cook County: "This is paradise. It's boring but it's paradise...
There was also scrub baseball, in which the littlest kid was allowed to play "pigtail," meaning that he stood behind the catcher and retrieved all the passed balls. There were boat races on nearby Crystal Lake, where the air was afume with adult cigar smoke ("One of the great disappointments of my life has been the fact that no cigar ever tasted as good as that cigar smoke used to smell there by Crystal Lake"). Of course there was a high school play. In a performance of Peg o' My Heart, Bruce was called upon by the script...