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...Western Onion quickly grew To some 70 members from...
...Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction: bears are fat and getting fatter, woolly bears (caterpillars) have thin brown bands across their middles and are moving fast, bushy-tailed squirrels are laying in extra supplies of acorns, bark on trees is extra thick. Onions are sporting thick skins, and everyone knows: "Onion skins very tough, winter's going to be very rough." Both the Almanac and the woolly bears, by the way, were right on in their predictions that last winter would be a brutal...
...bartenders fit all the necessary criteria, too. Not only do they make good, moderately-priced drinks, it's also possible to escape from them into a back room replete with the best juke box in Cambridge (it's not all Irish Rovers). Casual drinkers can also order food--the onion rings are first-rate--but for the purists, the atmosphere at Cronin's should be food enough for the soul. Only a dart board and Brendan Behan, singing dirty songs in the back corner are missing...
They are named Phantom Flasher, Lazarus, The Red Onion, Chiquita Vanana, Vandal and such. They ride high and graceless, as always, but now their boxy bodies cry out for attention with garish designs and obstreperous Pap art: frontier scenes, Hawaii schlock, seascapes, erotic mush. Even one-the specimen, say, that flashes nude girls in and out of view with Op-artful magic-can pop the eyeballs. When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here...
...presents another topographical surprise-a stretch of glacier-formed sand dunes, some as high as 30 meters (100 ft.), where summer temperatures can soar to more than 38° Celsius (100°F.). The desert-like dunes are more than 33,000 years old; pre-Eskimo archaeological sites along Onion Portage, which cuts through them, are estimated to be 10,000 years old and are considered among the most important in the Arctic...