Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Handshoe family, I believe some reaction to your story is called for. There is no such place as Handshoe Hollow on Upper Quicksand. Your title "Happy Pappies of Handshoe Holler" and Handshoe Hollow Holiness Church have more alliteration than facts. At least five Handshoes have attended Alice Lloyd College, and all have gone on to become leaders in the mountains. We know our area is economically depressed, but we question if it is altogether quaint to prefer our beautiful hills to the slums and polluted air of cities. Perhaps our quaintness lies in our interest in perpetuating...
...sophomore-laden varsity seemed unimpressed by its opponent's credentials, and it mounted a heavy attack from the start. Weich came up with great save after great save until sophomore defenseman Tag Demment stickhandled down the middle and beat him with a shot in the upper left corner...
Earlier investigation traced the blackout to a mechanical failure in an upper New York State power station. Investigators have so far made public no conclusions about the specific cause...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
...always, Updike's lean, acrobatic prose makes his performance look effortless: sunlight is "like raw ore still heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...