Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coming out of the city hall, where Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk had just been murdered. Slipping from the City Lights bookstore, Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti lamented the "pathogenic industrial civilization" and then wrote a poem: "A hush upon the landscape/ of the still wild West/ where two sweet dudes are dead/ and no more need be said." Cyra McFadden, whose book The Serial lampoons the insecure laid-back life in rich Marin County north of San Francisco, observed: "I had a good time with the kooks. Now I find I'm less and less amused, and more...
Another fault is that I miss soda, candy, pie, etc. which I shouldn't miss at all. The way I can prevent this is on agricultural Sunday work extra hard and I think everyone else should to because this produces more. Not only for sweet stuff do we only work for but to make our community become more advance...
...finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks and let the grapes grow plump and sweet. Louis Latour, head of the Burgundy Producers' Association, predicts that 1978, while a small harvest, will be remembered as a great year for Burgundies, "perhaps the best since...
...urge to don the string bikini was just too great to stay repressed and it bubbled back to the surface, and so two weeks later Hawaiian Night was born. This time around it was Mauai and Mauna Kea over Monterrey, and pineapple juice instead of orange drink. And the sweet strains of "Hawaiian Love Song" drowned out the bleating screams of "Help Me, Rhonda...
Teng, meanwhile, was continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...