Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With an estimated value of $1.5 billion annually, marijuana has surpassed tobacco as North Carolina's top cash crop. In an attempt to slow down the harvest, some landowners in the Tar Heel State last week began posting signs with the slogan MARIJUANA WATCH near the remote fields where pot is grown. The idea is to show that the owners are cooperating with lawmen, thereby avoiding possible seizure of their property if marijuana is found...
...stuffy White House briefing room, George Bush sparred with the hostage tar baby last Thursday, anguish shadowing his eyes at each of a dozen questions that have no satisfactory answers. Does the situation look brighter? "I welcome the release of ((Robert)) Polhill and ((Frank)) Reed," Bush answered. "But I can't rejoice and say that my heart is full of great goodwill as long as six others are held hostage...
...Laurentiis' ability to dazzle and deal is scarcely diminished. In February the 70-year-old legend rose from the tar pits of defeat and litigation to form another company, Dino De Laurentiis Communications, with the financial backing of his friend Giancarlo Parretti, the controversial Italian moneyman who also plans to buy MGM/UA for $1.2 billion. Dino's planned renaissance will begin with five films and a $67 million budget...
Nevertheless, West Virginia does not fit the Great Society image of ignorant hicks living in unheated tar paper shacks. Poverty and powerlessness are palpable in West Virginia, but the state and its people are not easily squeezed into simple generalizations about some mysterious place called Appalachia...
...more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized Red Guard armband if he failed to take part in the assault, he constructed a rationale to justify joining the brutality. His teacher's past devotion had been but a ruse to tar him as a fellow counterrevolutionary, he reasoned. He convinced himself that the manner in which the old man fell to his knees proved that he was guilty...