Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sparkling wine used for the toasts (Schramsberg Crémant Demi-sec 1981) lacked luster. But the California red (Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon 1978) was a western rainbow, smooth and joyous. The beef farci en croũte was a might overdone, but the candy sculpture of birds and flowers (all edible) that decorated the dessert servings was exquisite...
...stuff glinted off the Wolfs' decanter collection and their cut-glass saltcellar collection (here a discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot violet and figwort-little bottles, ancient mirrors, failing philodendrons, warmth, pleasantness and no guests...
...Oak Industries, which provides an array of broadcasting products, was largely due to weakening demand for over-the-air subscription...
...sergeants, that they are above whimpering. The 1982 high school graduate from Pontiac, Mich., writing a letter home ("Don't worry, really!"), shakes his dried-up Bic. An infantryman with a tiny mirror, still not used to the G.I. buzz cut, stares at himself. A lieutenant from Live Oak, Fla., peeks nervously over the sandbag ramparts and wonders about the alien landscape. A private forks out the last globs of mushy tinned meat and then, dog-tired from worrying about mortar rounds all day, snuffs his cigarette in the greasy C-ration can and sleeps...
...Avenue. An estimated 30% increase in store traffic as compared with last year has created three-deep layers of customers around display cases and has made parking spaces as scarce as Cabbage Patch dolls. Said Edward Brennan, chairman of the Sears merchandise group, after touring a company store in Oak Brook, Ill.: "It was wall-to-wall people. It made me feel great...