Word: shades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave home to pursue their fortunes elsewhere, in strange locations and foreign surroundings. And as soon as they are installed in the new situation they feel alien and misplaced, as though torn from some childhood Eden. So they move on, settling elsewhere in a vain effort to resurrect the shade of the trees on their childhood street and the sun-bright dust on the local ball field...
Frank Grinnel, a retired trucker himself, is the organizer of the affair. "I've been associated with the Roadeo since 1949," he says as he unloads equipment from the back of a station wagon. The beer cooler goes in the shade by the hangar. "Yes, we've been having these for years now. Used to be there was more interest, more people turn out. But it'll be all right, you'll see." His manner is gruff but friendly; everyone here seems to know...
Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries. While the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die. And sure enough, in this summer-weight comedy of hanky-panky in a university town, the apple is a little mushy, but worm and novel are in the best of health...
...shade of fiery Eva Peron must have winced. Touring Europe on behalf of her ailing husband, Argentina's President Juan Peron, 78, Isabelita, 44, made it clear that she was not trying to usurp his role. In Rome, Eva's successor gave a 55-minute speech defining the feminine ideal with a kicker worthy of Gertrude Stein: "Women have to be and feel no more than what they are and no less than what they must...
...turnout was greater than expected for the first convention of the Republican Party on July 6, 1854. So on that langorous summer day, hundreds of people wandered to the edge of the village of Jackson, Mich., to assemble in the shade of a grove of majestic oaks. Ever since, Republicans have been returning to the spot in search, as it were, of their roots. Although most of the trees have disappeared over the years, there were enough limbs left to furnish the gavel for the 1972 G.O.P. National Convention. But Richard Nixon may be the last President to receive...