Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other sun-center starting with an M, "the new Malibu look" has has asymmetrical shirts, pants with cargo pockets, pencil pockets, bomb bay pockets, and even pocket pockets, and wide-shouldered, durable windbreakers in every shade compatible with sand
Every 15 or 20 years someone with a note pad and pencil arrives in Sauk Centre, Minn., and asks cosmic questions: How's it goin'? What's the mood? Whither America? These visitations have been going on since 1920, when a native son named Sinclair Lewis published a best-selling satire called Main Street about a town he dubbed Gopher Prairie, which no one ever seriously doubted was inspired by Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into...
...Republican-controlled Senate buckled under the pressure and joined the Democrat-controlled House in passing expensive credit-relief packages for farmers. Reagan aides, calling the fight a "sign of things to come," predicted a presidential veto. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "The President is going to have his pencil sharp as far as any budget-busting bill is concerned...
...American Express card when he leaves his home in Long Beach, Calif., these days. In his luggage are twelve compact life-style support systems, including a 1/2- in.-thick electric shaver, a book-size radio, an even smaller iron, a collapsible fishing rod and a 5.3-oz. rechargeable power pencil sharpener. "They let me concentrate on the job," he explains, "instead of running around frantically trying to resolve a minor problem that could become a major...
...hour after the exam had officially ended, he noticed the delinquent student, still writing as fast as his hand could fly across the page. The proctor was shocked, and in his sternest administrator's voice, he summoned the student to the front desk. The offender lay down his pencil, picked up his blue book, and slowly trundled across the hall...