Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weston had stifled the Holy Cross offensive since the fifth, but the Crusaders broke loose on the second pitch of the inning. Cleanup batter Paul Pearl sent a hard shot to the left side, which took a bad bounce that baffled Crimson shortstop Dave O'Connell. Joe Noone put Pearl in scoring position with a single up the middle...
...South China is like visiting a foreign country. In contrast to much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately owned businesses blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most important is a bountiful selection...
Ultimately, Hester Prynne retains at least her faith, albeit an anachronistic one. She also remains with her daughter, Pearl. Sarah's independence leads to loneliness--bereft of ties to family or religion. In a letter to her daughter, also named Pearl, Sarah as much as instructs her to avoid...
...Chippendale dining table and matching eight chairs with the diamond-and-scroll back splats came from the Perkinses and should go eventually to Pearl along with the carved sea chest that accompanied Daddy's great-grandaddy back and forth to China countless times and the dear little blackened salt-and-pepper shakers handed down through Mother's mother's mother's people the Prynnes...
...sends from the ashram: to her husband, daughter, mother, friend, psychiatrist, hairdresser and assorted others. With her nearest and dearest, Sarah fends off recriminations by going on the offense. She hectors her husband about his affairs with his nurses and the upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin...