Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling of walking over the ground strewn with apples. The sound of apples crushing underneath your feet as you walk up to a tree and start pulling off one Red Delicious after another, a red ladder (probably planted there by the orchard owner to make it look more quaint) leaning against an apple tree, lugging half a bushel of apples back...
Stop at this small city, find a winding, narrow road to a quaint town, drive across the covered bridge, turn around, find more foliage. There are apple picking orchards in West Brattleboro, in Bellow's Fall, in Grafton. That's what the tourism board told us, but by the time we got to Vermont, it was difficult to decipher my handwriting and keep my eye on the road at the same time. And the phone number for Francis Miller Orchards was busy when we called...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
...guitar. They took us into town to the festival that was going on that night. We expected another pwe, but instead it was a huge carnival with a ferris wheel, Kung Fu movies blaring, and enormous garish posters everywhere--so much for quaint village life...
Clearly the main culprit in the battle for an open decision making process at this University is the administration itself. It condescendingly views student protest as a kind of quaint extracurricular activity which doesn't affect the University. It even tries to squelch participation in its affairs by tampering with elections by its own alumni, as it did this year in the annual vote for the Board of Overseers. (The Board is a 30-member alumni body which technically oversees all decisions by the policy-making Harvard Corporation...