Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuzzy tam-o'-shanter perched on his head. He is squeezing the hand of his girl friend, a teased blonde in a Day-Glo orange pantsuit and sequined glasses, carrying a suitcase-size black patent leather handbag and a bag of candy. They crunch along through the litter of wrappers and handbills toward the star attraction, the dazzling Muzi-Kart, a customized 1933 Willys...
Must the viewing public be subjected to all the unintelligible litter and wait with bated breath for the one intelligent work...
THINGS HAVE NOT gotten any better in East Cambridge since Larry Largey was allegedly beaten to death by two Cambridge policemen. Over 500 windows were broken in Roosevelt Towers last month alone. Rubbish and beer cans, many of them drained by the kids, litter the hallways. Shut out of the Langley Teen Center by the Recreation Department, kids hang out under the protected benches or in the shadows of the same doorways they have frequented for the last three years...
Among the 50,000 black strikers, the majority of them Zulu tribesmen, were 16,000 Durban municipal employees; their walkout caused litter to pile up in the streets and forced white housewives to perform the unaccustomed task of carting away their own garbage. At nearby Hammarsdale, where 7,00 blacks left their jobs, a crowd of 200 was dispersed by police with tear gas after the demonstrators had brandished clubs and chanted "Usutu!", a traditional Zulu...
...know what the food in the Faculty Club will taste like in ten years, but I know it tastes like poison now. I don't know what DeWolfe Street will look like in ten years, but I know as I walk down to Leverett House that the filth and litter of it weigh on my soul. I don't know what the state of the practicing arts will be like at Harvard in ten years, but I know that, with the exception of the students in Music 180 who gave a stunning recital before Christmas, they are in the doldrums...