Word: paint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of them already have cracks in the plaster and peeling paint. This after less than a year of occupancy. Surely $20 million plus ought to have bought renovations that would last longer than a year...
...Harlem, angry residents paint large red X's on crack dealers' doors and put stuffed animals in the windows of abandoned buildings as a symbolic gesture to reclaim them from drug users. In New Mexico, two children turn in their parents to the police for marijuana possession, just as a California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana...
...Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage of Kesey's life was described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's rollicking screed about a cross-country tour that Kesey and his overstimulated Merry Pranksters took in a vintage school bus with a psychedelic paint...
Since early August, Michael N. Lichten, who was responsible for preparing the "physical" aspects of the 350th, has mobilized hundreds of workers for thousands of hours to mow lawns, paint buildings and trim ivy. In addition, his workers have planted 54 rhododendrons, 225 bushes, 180 tubs of chrysanthemums and two trees...
...Israelis initially tried to paint a brighter picture, calling the session "candid and correct." But the rhetoric soon heated up. In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared that Israel had been entitled to raise the emigration issue, since it had a valuable "asset" in the form of 2 million Soviet Jews. In Moscow, Gerasimov retorted, "That is a very arrogant interference in (our) internal affairs. It is like saying that all the Anglo- Saxons in America are the property of the Queen of England...