Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman year--when both the Dramat and the graduate school always kept their separate corners of the University Theater building locked. By her senior year, the locks were gone. "It was just one hassle after another, she says. "Every disagreement escalated into a violent issue. Who left the trash can in the lobby was grounds for a major battle...
...took them on pilgrimages, one of which brought eleven busloads to Indiana and Florida (to visit his then-retired spiritual mentor Myrtle Kennedy); another brought part of his flock to Washington, D.C., where he had them pick up trash on the Capitol grounds. Editorialized the Washington Post in August 1973: "The hands-down winners of anybody's tourists-of-the-year award have got to be the 660 members of the Peoples Temple . . . who bend over backwards to leave every place they visit more attractive than when they arrived...
...said, 'Of course there are, but we never talk about it.' " Most Americans have only a spectator's interest in the problems of social kissing (a phenomenon they witness mainly on Johnny Carson) or in the protocol of inviting gay couples to a party. The Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning is not affronted when her husband fails to pull out her chair at dinner. She settles for watching reruns of the butler Hudson on Upstairs, Downstairs and for the knowledge that wherever she goes, all day long, other Americans will be singing...
...intransigent workers to accept the wisdom of his incomes policy. Last week 57,000 assembly-line workers at Ford Motor Co. Ltd., in the seventh week of a strike for higher pay, rejected a company offer of a 16.5% increase. Meanwhile, workers in the public sector, from teachers to trash men, are also pushing for raises of up to 40%. If Callaghan hangs tough and a winter of strikes follows, the result could be stormy for Sunny...
...envelope contains an elegant, hand-scripted invitation to a cocktail party at a final club. R.S.V.P. Some toss the "punches" in the trash, some are overjoyed and seek congratulations, and others have a vague interest in checking it out. They have been "punched," because early October is "punching season" for the final clubs...