Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, though, I had to pass through scenic New Jersey, scenic southern Pennsylvania, scenic Ohio--ah, the natural wonders of the interstate highway system, with three squalling brats across the aisle as background music. Still, this was the price of cheap transportation west. Anxious to reach the wide open spaces, I stayed on the bus as state after state rolled by, telling myself I would get off when I reached America, the old "When it's right, you know it" type thing. Indiana merged into Illinois, which metamorphosed into St. Louis, Missouri and Oklahoma...
...minutes, tried to walk on, stopped, sat some more, walked another hundred yards or so, lay down on a rock, watched a middle aged fat man and his kids, all undoubtedly newly-arrived from Iowa in their shiny, sleep Winnebago, pass me by, bummed a beer from some longhairs heading down, slept and dreamt pleasant dreams about heat exhaustion and dying in canyons and the human equivalent of being slowly cooked in a Crock Pot. The last mile took as long as the first four had, and two ten-year old girls passed me on the way but I didn...
...with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon with dogs, goats and drunken people and a huge, disgusting pot of beans--this was not my ideal of a good time at the moment, after Mt. Shasta and Tioga Pass...
Last week George Martinez, the newspaper heiress's attorney, sent a pardon application to Attorney General Griffin Bell. After reviewing her case?a process that could take as long as 90 days ?Bell will pass on his recommendations to President Carter, who will make the final decision. Trying to do her bit, Patty sometimes wears a T shirt that reads PARDON ME on the front and, on the back, BEING KIDNAPED MEANS ALWAYS HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY...
Another complication: many plants that failed to pass new pollution regulations have had to close, and capital that would have been used to expand capacity has had to be spent to meet environmental standards. So anxious are construction men about this situation that the National Home Builders Association has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to allow cement makers more time to install antipollution devices and permit the reopening of some plants that have been shut down. But even if the EPA were to agree, some builders may be unable to get the cement they need before the first freeze...