Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specter of highly weapons-trained, addicted combat veterans joining the deadly struggle for drugs is ominous. Warned Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, speaking in Detroit over the weekend: "Within a matter of months in our large cities, the Capone era of the '20s may look like a Sunday school picnic by comparison...
...Larry King's achievement that he has so unsparingly documented how we got ourselves to this sorry point in history. Confessions of a White Racist is, to be sure, no picnic. It's a terrifying and gutsy first report from the white camp during this, our second Civil...
Perhaps the only happy man in the Cabinet, next to Morton, would be Transportation Secretary, John Volpe, who could load lemonade, sleeping bag, and portable power saw into a camper and set off across the American countryside, pausing now and then to picnic and saw down a roadside billboard...
...part in greater numbers than before; burly Teamsters acted as marshals around the speakers' platform. In San Francisco as in Washington, the mood of the marchers was discernibly different from the heady optimism of the 1969 Moratorium. Both demonstrations were happily free of violence. But under the spring-picnic good cheer last week was a layer of despair, and a distrust of all the considerable evidence that the Administration is winding down the war. In 1969, said David Ifshin, president of the National Student Association, "we came with the sense that the war might end tomorrow." He added: "That...
...swimming pools and second homes. Spending for leisure and travel will rise anew, in part because of the increase in three-day weekends that begins this year with the switch of four federal holidays to Mondays. Outdoor recreation will be increasingly popular, lifting sales of boats, ski equipment, picnic and camping gear. If the four-day work week wins a foothold, it can only reinforce all these prospects...