Word: peppermints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of them had been standing out in the cold since before dawn, they were practically guaranteed seats in muchcoveted section 14. A foursome sat at a portable table and played a heated game of cards that began a couple of hours before. After downing a few bottles of peppermint schnapps, they felt no pain, nor chill, for that matter...
True, traces of an earlier era persist in the Lechmere area. The smell of chocolate and peppermint and coconut bits still assaults the senses in front of Borden's plant, and the Lechmere department store still sells cheap TVs. But these businesses now share the space with upscale office buildings and chic restaurants...
...many images, so many of them conflicting. America's gold-medal speed skater, Bonnie Blair, 23, was the picture of invulnerability or delicacy, depending on whether she was all packed up in her peppermint suit, streaming across the ice, or her hair was falling down afterward in curls. (It's the color of maple syrup in the morning.) "I'm just a person who likes to chase someone," she said in a voice that sounded too small for a champion of the world, 5 ft. 5 in. tall...
...three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape all the men . . . and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!" And, most discouraging of all, the Unconscionable Length: 1,138 pages...
...about academics. In his senior year, Vickers notes, Beaton was cast in drag for a student revue. "He began to practise high kicks for his show and found himself incapable of preparing for his exam: 'I've done absolutely no work!' Then he went to London to buy bright peppermint pink chiffon for his dress...