Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasants take in destitute children and an eight-year-old boy had been imposed on a peasant family. Then he disappeared. And on investigation, his bones were discovered by the peasant's shack, in a big crock. The question was only whether the boy had been eaten after he died or had been killed to be eaten later...
...their stubbornness and steadfastness, the miners have been hurt by the lengthy strike. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief, Benjamin Gate, describes conditions in West Frankfort (pop. 9,400): "With most people eating at home, the Country Fried Chicken Shack and the Pancake House close early. By late afternoon, the streets are deserted and the supermarket parking lots empty. Down the side streets, the small, neat clapboard houses are dimly lit, if at all, with porch lights extinguished. Outside of town, along the bleak and muddy roads, stand the idled mines, their gantries tall and silent. The mines are deserted...
...permanent snowfield atop Mount Epworth into a pile of rocks, fracturing his skull; he died half an hour later. Mary Ann McGerry, Diane Hanna, Jim Warner and Peter Fader are all in school. Debbie Moon is engaged to be married. New people spend their weekends in the patrol shack...
...Boston, the storm destroyed some of New England's best-known landmarks. Among them was the seaside dwelling in Eastham on Cape Cod that was made famous by Naturalist Henry Beston's 1928 bestseller The Outermost House. The surf in Rockport, Mass., demolished a red fishing shack known as "Motif No. 1," a favorite subject for local artists. In Maine, the losses included three lighthouses and the amusement pier at Old Orchard Beach, where Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman once played...
...covered by the U.S.-Japan trade agreement signed in Tokyo last week by Special Trade Representative Robert Strauss. Moreover, such restrictions are opposed by other firms in the industry like Fort Worth-based Tandy Corp., which imports large numbers of CB radios and sells them through its Radio Shack retail outlets...