Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning, and Jim Smith stands at his stall in the Old Paris Flea Market, a recycled warehouse near Oklahoma City's railroad yards. Before him are tables laden with things to sell or swap: beer mugs, some tiny and some as big as umbrella stands, plus old bottles, crystal goblets and ceramic figurines...
...wonder exactly what the goals of SASC are. Does SASC want to free South Africans from the chains of apartheid, or is there a further goal? It seems that SASC stands not only in support of oppressed South Africans, but also of other African groups. Suddenly under the umbrella of SASC activities come tributes to, among others, the current government of Angola and "freedom" forces lead by Nkomo and Mugabe--organizations whose goals include more than simple self-determination for the South African people...
...relations campaigns and secure the large performance halls necessary to establish a devoted audience following. For this reason dance troupes have, for the past several years, collaborated in dance festivals featuring a few name companies interspersed among local and experimental troupes. The most famous such festival, New York Dance Umbrella, has used groups like Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham as its "anchor" companies; for the most part, these festivals have so far been unsuccessful in Boston...
Chloroflourocarbon is the chemical name for gases composed of chlorine, fluorine and carbon that have come to be known simply as flourocarbons. The chlorine has been found to deplete the earth's protective umbrella of ozone in the stratosphere, increasing the planet's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation...
...basis in Iranian institutions." Wesson detects a parallel between Islam in Iran and Roman Catholicism in Poland. "There, in a country in a subrevolutionary situation, the Catholic Church is enormously popular because it is the counter to the government - it is the refuge for freedom. It has become the umbrella for all man ner of movements...