Word: nowadayses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In Zamboanga City, a building contractor complains that the illicit kickbacks he is forced to pay to obtain government contracts have jumped to 20%. Nowadays, he adds, even "someone from the Government Auditor's Department [supposedly an anticorruption watchdog agency] comes along and demands his own payoff to keep...
Tis the season of the festival, and a festival nowadays is a protean feast. It is a group of local notables trying to put clothes on live chickens in a contest at the Hamilton County Fair near Cincinnati. It is a baseball game at the New England Clown Convention in...
The situation is not much better on campus. He somehow remembers a pusher going door to door in Kirkland House selling heroin--curious, in retrospect, considering you can't even bum a cigarette in Kirkland House nowadays. During punching season, he is shocked by a conversation with Porcellian Club members...
The wolf was still scrounging around the square with his friends looking for some raw meat, though, and his trustful scent brought him to the frenetic source of his curiosity. PCP was the freshman craze in certain Harvard Yard circles, and lots of it was being eaten. This was the...
If listening to "frenzied" music is what people enjoy, so be it. After all, nowadays people consider themselves fortunate if only their ears are assaulted.