Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely in the interest of attaining one of the next stones in the local political pond, candidates for the School Committee have generally run against busing since 1965, because, as the past two years have made clear, nobody really likes to seek their kids bussed. So Garrity, one could say, accused the School Committee members with carrying out their campaign promises, and all too rigorously, too thoroughly, too well. Specificially, the court found that the committee had not capitalized on several chances to redistrict for greater racial balance in the schools, had insisted on building new schools at the center...
Polaski expressed concern yesterday that there might be more trouble as an increased numbers of picketers and police face each other this morning. She also indicated that 15-20 riot policemen had been put on alert at the Fresh Pond police station, and said that they were "going through maneuvers...
Ford had something charitable to say about almost everyone. He was effusive about John Connally, conciliatory about Ronald Reagan and confident about the advantages of going against Jimmy Carter as an underdog in the fall. He seemed eager to forget politics altogether and instead to reminisce about Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, the colorful Yale varsity football mentor under whom he worked as an assistant coach and scout from...
There was no time for small talk or for watching the turtles and water moccasins that occasionally poked their heads above the surface of the muddy pond near the house. Seated in a circle in the living room, Carter and the experts sipped soft drinks and engaged in a free-flowing, four-hour discussion of U.S. and Soviet treaty commitments, defense spending, the prospects for the nuclear-arms-limitation talks and other military matters...
...host attacked the problem with typical verve: he and his younger brother Billy and son Chip, 26, partially drained the pond, plunged in as deep as their shoulders and netted the fat catfish, bass and bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...