Word: mille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to miss this. This is one I for the history books," said a woman who waited all night outside London's Central Criminal Court. The attraction for curiosity seekers was Peter Sutcliffe, 34, a softspoken, bearded truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford, who seemed an unlikely focus for the notoriety surrounding the "Yorkshire Ripper" murder cases...
...Cheap!" Maister emphatically scribbles. "Is this a classy greasy spoon or a run-of-the-mill greasy spoon...
Secure in their eastern Tennessee mill town and its surrounding valley, Emily and Sally Prince play childhood games with Raymond and Jed Tatro. They are joined by Donny Tatro, who is not related to the other boys, although their ancestors once owned his; Donny is black. High school and adolescence break the original ties that bound this group together. Donny is firmly segregated elsewhere, while Emily and Raymond turn out to be misfits and loners; she is gawky and plays basketball, while he collects stamps and mopes around in rayon shirts and reindeer sweater vests. Only Sally and Jed thrive...
...marry her, and would love her forever. That didn't seem like too much to ask." When her pregnancy finally occurs, Sally and Jed marry and concoct an earlier wedding date that the town's mythology can live with. Her father gives Jed a job in the mill...
...young people are woefully and often hilariously unprepared for what life in the '60s and early '70s throws their way. What is more, the tight little community they grew up in is being rattled into unrecognizability. Outside organizers have installed a union at the cotton mill, which has passed from the hands of the Prince family and is now owned by a distant conglomerate. Even stay-at-home Sally and her lug of a husband are ruffled by newfangled ideas. Sally decides that she wants a career...