Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the people who stop at Carroll Harper's place are tourists from up North or from over on the other side of the Blue Ridge, in the District of Columbia's westward-creeping suburbs. But the two men standing out front next to a pickup truck, wearing overalls and visored caps, are obviously locals. "My brother got me a statue here last week. He thought I'd like it," says one, the soft twang of his western Virginia accent confirming the visual evidence. "I don't. Can I trade it in on something else?" Harper, a stocky...
...Family has a Christmas-time ritual. When the Grinch rears his ugly head and the wintry winds begin to whip wildly westward (making Chicago very cold), we pack up the family station wagon and head south. To Florida...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese, under official investigation on suspicion of corruption; a rough year for Federal Judge Robert Bork, nominated to the Supreme Court but humiliatingly rejected by the Senate. Well, time passes. Next year at this time, Ronald Reagan can look forward to packing his bags and heading westward into the sunset, just as he and his fellow heroes used to do in Warner Bros. pictures. Out in Santa Barbara, Calif., he can happily spend his days chopping wood and telling stories about the good old days and, being an honest man, the bad ones...
...occupation by destroying three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest. As a primal hero of German history, Arminius was a great Nazi favorite, but here Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later German "descendants" like Blucher, who fought against Napoleon; Schlieffen, whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe was the basis of Hitler's blitzkrieg; writers from Klopstock to Rilke, and so on. Lines signifying affiliation, as in a family tree (a whole family forest, in fact, this Teutoburg), ramble slackly between some of the characters. Pictorially, the result is a shambles, and one needs...
Indeed, Government involvement grew slowly at first because most trade was carried out within individual states and therefore overseen by local and state officials. But westward expansion and the development of an extensive railroad and canal system spurred interstate markets. In 1887 Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first major federal business regulatory agency. The commission was established in part to combat price gouging by the railroads...