Word: pining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal source of bootlegged cigarettes is North Carolina, where tobacco is king and the state tax is only 2? a pack. On one 100-mile stretch of highway, known locally as "Tobacco Road," there are more cigarette dealers than pine trees, and their lots are jammed with out-of-state cars loading up for the run north. Profits average $1.25 a carton and the risk is relatively low: according to police, the odds against getting caught...
...carpet 50 yards ahead of us stood Mao's funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait of the Chairman. A white-lettered streamer read, "We mourn with deepest grief the great leader and teacher, Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...streams and a proliferation of man-made lakes, upcountry and coastal folk alike have as much access to water sports-fishing, boating, diving, skiing-as fabled Californians (about one-third of all the nation's outboard motors are owned by Southerners). Forest-product firms that have made loblolly pine a prime component of pulp and paper have also greened the South with new woodlands astir with game...
...getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call his dog. Similes fall like raindrops: slow as a pond, high as a pine, sorry as gully dirt...
...pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati ...The iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburgh ... They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...