Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Animal Day pet personality contest, pet picnic and animal parade. Cambridge Common. Noon...
...Winchester Archeological Excavations, have not endeared themselves to the local elderly ladies. As a unit, the diggers are young, dirty and loud. They look like hippies, and swagger about the ancient city with mud-caked trowels hanging from the hip pockets of their filthy jeans. They play soccer and picnic on the Green in front of the Winchester Cathedral, and perch on the tombstones at night...
...Wall. They must summon a Vopo by pressing a black plastic button beside the door. Then they must cross the sandy death strip under the watchful eyes of Vopo sharpshooters and pass through yet another door in a second wall to reach their homes. A German family carrying picnic baskets through this grim gauntlet is one of the more memorable sights of post-Wall Berlin...
...perennial attacks, Patman, head of the House Banking and Currency Committee, last week at a subcommittee hearing accused the Federal Reserve Board of spending as much as $588,200 on questionable or frivolous items. Examples: $2,514.11 on a picnic with prizes at the Buffalo branch, $50 for a parking fine and towing charge for a New York Fed official, $20.90 for babysitting charges so that a New York member and his wife could attend two dinners. In addition, Patman was disturbed by the Fed's "Thrift" club, in which the system has contributed almost $2,000,000 annually...
...PICNIC: A place or country in which operations are easy. West Germany is considered to be a picnic for the Soviets...