Word: mariposa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some buildings were leveled while neighboring structures survived intact. In San Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only 100 ft. from the San Andreas fault. Although it bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, but we didn't lose a thing." Her porch, however, had "gone out to meet two little old ladies" arriving for dinner...
...Aryan and that white Anglo-Saxons, rather % than the Jews, are the true chosen people. The A.D.L. says Identity beliefs have influenced the Klan and many other white supremacist groups. A prominent spokesman for the movement is William P. Gale of the Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif., once a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon W. Kahl and two others murdered a pair of federal marshals who were trying to serve him with a warrant...
...natives are not above making a few bucks off their adversity. At the Fault Line Restaurant in San Juan Bautista, the previous owner called himself Sam Andreas and offered free meals to patrons on the premises when a quake of 3.5 or better struck. Becky McGovern, owner of the Mariposa House Restaurant in San Juan Bautista, wants to have an "earthquake festival" along the fault to attract visitors this summer. Some years ago in Hollister, Newspaper Publisher Millard Hoyle suggested an earthquake carnival of his own. It called for, among other things, a macabre ride in a room that "would...