Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vehicles patrolled at the sides, automatic weapons laid out on the car floors. The bareheaded Hitler, so ordinary a man in himself, seemed transformed. "The nonchalant flip of the hand and a faint smile acknowledged the tributes," Helms recalls. "Even little children spontaneously shot out their arms." The bright sun glanced off the red Nazi flags hanging everywhere...
...health fears often bring windfall business, as the manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...
Call it a natural disaster. The San Diego Zoo spent $3.5 million to build a designer forest that would house five adolescent Malayan sun bears. The zookeepers planted some trees, dug a moat, launched a waterfall, even hooked up a fiber-glass tree with an electric honey dispenser. As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese...
...sweet-tempered soul, August is a test of patience and ingenuity, when office workers lunch by a fountain and hope for a strong wind. Shoppers browse through Chicago's Hammacher Schlemmer, lured by inflatable water shoes (pontoons for the feet), or a solar-powered ventilated golf cap, or, for sun worshipers who don't know any better, a sun-tracking beach chair that rotates 360 degrees for maximum exposure. For those who prefer refrigeration to recreation, swank, Dallas-based Neiman Marcus is prepared to cater a private picnic for customers in its fur vault, which is kept at a constant...
Dallas summers are usually notable for their scorching heat and blinding sun. This season the city is being treated to a spectacle that seems a throwback to an earlier age: small bands of angry civil rights demonstrators marching, rallying and disrupting public gatherings in an effort to gain a greater voice at city hall...