Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another sanguine sign: partly because conservation efforts (especially by industry) have had more effect than almost anyone originally expected, the annual growth in world oil consumption has been held to about 1% in the five years since the embargo, compared with the 5% to 7% increases in the extravagant days before. As a result, the OPEC countries have been holding their production well below full capacity; even so, they are preparing to end their two-year price freeze with an increase (perhaps 5%) next year...
...Lynds, who did not miss much, found roots of the "generation gap" of the 1960s. Backyards were getting smaller and community playgrounds larger, one sign that even young children were spending more time away from home. Sudden change had brought an "early sophistication" to the young and a lessening of parental authority. Industrialization allowed a boy to earn a man's wage and end dependence on his parents at a younger age. Still, says Bahr, there is no evidence that the generation gap is wider today than in 1924: parents and their offspring quarrel about the same amount...
This is certainly so in The Crucifer of Blood. The play is ostensibly about a nasty case solved by Sherlock Holmes (Paxton Whitehead) with his customarily occult intelligence - a fancifully distorted version of Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four. What Crucifer is actually about is Holmes' study, a bibliophile's opulent dream, though Holmes is so busy shooting up cocaine that it is questionable whether he could lift a book. It is also about an opium den so suggestive of for bidden and abandoned pleasures that it might serve as ad copy for Yves Saint...
Five unidentified youths early Sunday morning assaulted three Harvard Square Theater employees who attempted to stop them from stealing a sign in the theater's lobby, five minutes after the end of a midnight showing of the Rolling Stone's film, "Gimme Shelter...
...Cambridge Police night report Hill stated that he observed five white males between 17 and twenty years of age stealing a sign from the front of the theater. When he attempted to stop them they began to assault him, and his fellow workers who came to his assistance, the report added...