Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life if I think I can make me the butt of the joke. But I'm not crazy about actually talking about real things in my life: the women in my life, or my own political feelings and beliefs, limited as they are. If something funny happens in the supermarket, I like trying to talk about that. Because I think -- and this may be completely misguided -- if I were at home watching a show, I'd like to hear about Johnny Carson's getting a flat tire. But I don't want to start explaining in great detail what makes...
Sidewalks littered with rotting garbage and crumpled packaging. Roadsides strewn with sodden mattresses, broken chairs and abandoned supermarket carts. Concluded a report by Britain's Royal Fine Art Commission last week: "London has become dirty, degrading and depressing...
...local Habitat affiliates and proselytizing. Once or twice a year he takes hammer in hand and helps finish off a Habitat home with the volunteers. Full-time helpers in Americus, Ga., are paid only their lodging and a weekly "pig check" -- a $25 certificate redeemable at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket...
This spring the Vatican is publishing the A-to-L volume of a lexicon turning into Latin some 15,000 phrases that did not exist in the time of Cicero and Caesar. Among the neologisms from the complete opus: ampla rerum venalium domus (supermarket), ignitabulum nicotianum (cigarette lighter), nuntius fulminans (news flash) and mulierum liberatio (women's lib). Beams Abbot Egger, who is also the editor of a Latin newspaper: "This is proof; Latin can be used even today for everything...
...help of a Ford Foundation spin-off called the Local Initiatives Support Corp., and some local and federal money to secure the necessary loans, TEDC transformed the Pantry Pride site into Edison Plaza, a $2.1 million shopping center with thriving stores and offices, anchored by a Winn-Dixie supermarket...