Word: onion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eastern Pennsylvania. A casual traveler topping the hill where Route 61 swings up from the south can take in the entire community at a glance, from St. Ignatius' Catholic church at one end of town, past the wooden row houses and empty storefronts in the center, to onion-domed St. Mary's Russian Orthodox church at the other. But a more careful look reveals something else: acrid-smelling steam coming from the ground. Centralia sits on a bed of fire; it is its own hell on earth. The steam rises from pipes in the middle of Route...
...Perhaps not, but Calvino makes a manly effort. It all begins with that traveler on that winter's night in a railroad station. Outside, much fog. Inside, much steam from the espresso machine. Suddenly the reader stumbles into the kitchen realism of a Polish novel featuring an onion being fried by a young woman called Brigd. Franz Kafka would be right at home...
...murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...
...Bible is worn, but Michael doesn't have to rifle through the creased onion-skin pages to footnote what he's saying because he knows it by heart, and what he can't quote verbatim he'll read tonight and tomorrow night and every night...
...Moscow Games to secure commodities they have never quite been able to purchase in the market of world opinion: prestige and respectability. Intensely proud and patriotic, they have inherited a centuries-old inferiority complex. They have invested hundreds of millions in the 1980 Games and have gilded every onion dome in Moscow. The Olympics were to be the great Soviet coming-out party...