Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They still shun smoking and drinking, but their practice of polygamy died with the covered wagon. And not all three million-plus members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints live in Salt Lake City and hold degrees from Brigham Young University either...
...also fascinated by "naive" and "primitive" structures like the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, by puppets, facsimiles and toys. Their studio loft in Manhattan's Little Italy is crammed with antique clockwork toys and fragments of gaudy Sicilian carts. (They once traveled together in a horse-drawn wagon from Florence to Venice, giving puppet shows en route to pay their way.) Such are not the tastes of formalists, and those who like only "high" art will have to find other places to look for it in New York...
...Carroll #512," you see, is the verbal-digital designation of a yellow, butt-bruising school bus. Hardly the Greyhound luxury-cruise type that the hotshots of the campaign press corps deign to ride in and complain about, but then again, the hotshots aren't riding Jimmy Carter's band-wagon--yet. Whether they will be come May and the second onslaught of state primaries was something I wanted to try to find out. But more than wanting to ruminate over darkhorse Jimmy Carter's staying power as a candidate for President in 1976, on a cold night two weeks...
...contest, in short, is no contest. Fast-talking Dad is insensible to the emotional needs of the child or anyone else. Grandfather, besides being so nice, conducts his business from a horse-drawn wagon and lets David accompany him. What kid could resist...
...back. When the train arrives, cabs and buses wait to whisk denizens of the game to Yale's campus, and to the Yale Bowl where the game will be played. In Yale Bowl parking lots old friends gather to sip champagne and pick at delicacies spread across station-wagon tailgates. Antique autos abound, many of which remain in storage all year except for this and perhaps a few other special occasions. At Morey's tavern, well-bred alumni quaff two--dollar cocktails. Undergraduates bring beer and liquor to lunch in the college dining halls, where they sit with old high...