Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Pie," 642 beers and one homecoming stop at Buzzy's later--every cell of your being will be satiated with sun, sand, alcohol and the smell of your fellow sun lovers crammed into that Duster for all those hours. But it will have been worth it--the tan alone would be enough; the frisbee games, margaritas and girl you met in Daytona are extra cheese in the taco...
Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris...
Action Herbie is a regular. He made a killing in the furniture business years ago, and now he wanders down south every Christmas to play the tables and work on his tan. Action Herbie bets so much that the Casino even gave him a special award a few years back. Something about contributions to the industry...
...Washington state Republican Party, and a sensitive psychiatric social worker. Yet he was also possessed by what he called his "little problem," which rode him even as his career in politics began to accelerate. Occasionally it would drive him to cruise neat suburban neighborhoods or college districts in his tan VW looking for young women to rape, strangle, sodomize, or smash with crowbars...
White Sand Bay public beach looks like a Bedouin encampment. The "bathers" huddle under white sheets held up on posts driven into the sand. In Taiwan, tanned skin is frowned upon; the ideal beauty is pale. If your skin is tan it means you have to work outdoors, farming or building. Even on the hottest days, workers stay covered from head to toe. Some car washers in Taipei wear detachable sleeves to keep their arms out of the sun; they remove them when they rest in the shade. So Alex and I are not surprised that many of the "bathers...