Word: pond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spas are leaders in changing the image of fat farm to fitness | farm, and three in that state demonstrate the similarities and diversities: The Golden Door, which has been in business for 25 years, specializes in judicious cosseting of its 40 guests. Exquisite rock gardens, waterfalls and a pond with lazily swimming pink, black and red koi decorate the landscape. The Japanese-inspired setting in Escondido, 40 miles north of San Diego, may be serene, but the schedule is not. As gongs ring to signal new activities, visitors tug at lavender T shirts to get a look at pinned...
China's looks like a discount warehouse, complete with piles of rugs and gewgaws. Inside the Soviet Union's pavilion, there are models of satellites and space stations, a huge pond on which a few little ships make desultory voyages, and a large relief map of the U.S.S.R., with lights pinpointing major cities and prompting a sense of unfortunate irony. In each group there is almost always some black humorist who asks, "Is Chernobyl the one that's glowing brightest?" The American pavilion, dedicated at the last moment to the seven astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster, deals exclusively with...
...civic duties. They were lovers once, and become lovers again when she returns home for a vacation. Will he accept her invitation to join her in the jet streams and write her captions? Or is he going to stay put and continue the good fight to keep his small pond ecologically sound, his nice nuclear family unsplit...
...coast looked clear. No signs, right or left, (This might have made me pause, I admit.) Fifteen minutes later my car was gone. The Cambridge police offered the (wrong) number of a towing outfit who gave me the right number, who indeed had the car, at Fresh Pond, for $50. Reinspection of the site of the crime yielded damning evidence: There are warning signs on the abutting building, but none on the road or sidewalk, and none whatsoever posted perpendicular to the driver's point of view...
Well! Next I approached two Cambridge officers. "Know who owns Winthrop Street?" "You been towed?" "Yes." "Harvard!" Well, well!! I grabbed a cab to Fresh Pond Shopping Center ($5) and told the driver to head out back, as per instructions. "You been towed?" he asked. "Yep. You a regular on this route?" "Oh, I've been here before, heh-heh. They do a lot of towing, especially on weekend nights, when out-of-towners come to the Square." Phil's Tows claimed not to know who authorized the job and overcharged me too, according to documents on file with...