Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the story of a machine. Actually several machines. First there is my car. You know the familiar story--"when it works, it's great!" This fall it hasn't. It's been in the shop more often than Harvard has changed quarterbacks...
...disregard the combined overall record of 1-6-1 the teams drag on to the field. Disregard the fact that Dartmouth's offense has been putting up doughnuts on the scoreboard faster than a Dutch bake shop...
...commercial hub is Sherman Avenue, where Harry's Hong Kong Tailor Shop is tucked alongside the base exchange. Gitmo has a zoo, but it has only a handful of animals: a pony and a burro and a few goats, rabbits, ducks and chickens. Because water is expensive, $7 per 1,000 gal, residents sprinkle their lawns with dirty wash water...
...supermarkets in the Boston area, De Moula's, Ceritan's, Purity Supreme, Hernandez., Star and Capital, have agreed not to carry Red Coach lettuce. Chavez met with Stop and Shop Supermarket officials yesterday, and reached no agreement...
...subway starts to roll. Waves of passengers greet the frowning guardsmen. "This way, ma'am, stay on the other side of the yellow rope," the MPs say, and they all do as they are told, most walking down Tremont Street in search of a coffee shop. Dunkin Donuts, the first to open, sells 6 dozen donuts in under a minute, and the proprietor stares with dismay at the disappearing stocks of crullers and jelly-filled. "Shit, we need more donuts. I should have made more donuts," he mutters...