Word: puget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepare 29 dishes for 500 to 700 guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
...From Puget Sound to Pennsylvania Avenue, typewriters clack at kitchen tables and computer screens glow in closets. Who cares if the roast burns or the dog sheds on the couch? Not the scores of homemaker-columnists who are busy pounding out their copy. Such trifles must wait their turn behind dreams of hitting it big like Bombeck...
...native of Montana, the energetic, soft-spoken Hunthausen, 62, is known as the "peace Archbishop." He preaches unilateral disarmament, refuses to pay half of his income tax as a protest against Pentagon spending, and has denounced the local nuclear submarine base as the "Auschwitz of Puget Sound." During his week-long visitation, Hickey said he was not concerned with political issues but only with hearing out priests, nuns and parishioners, and among the 60 Washingtonians he spoke to there was no shortage of praise for Hunthausen; 252 of the 280 priests in the archdiocese signed a petition of support...
...Percival L. Everett, 26, darts off in another direction entirely. Suder simply walks out on his wife, his team, Seattle. He buys a saxophone and tries to learn to play it like Charlie Parker. He hitches up with an older acquaintance who takes him on a boat ride across Puget Sound. The purpose of the trip turns out to be cocaine smuggling, and Suder manages to push his host overboard and sail off with all the loot. Then he wins an elephant at a carnival and names it Renoir...
...Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there, he was met by quizzical stares from onlookers wondering who the tanned and gaunt stranger...