Word: yardley
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...British are supposed to be above such nonsense. After all, their prime-time soaps (such as The Forsyte Saga, Poldark and Upstairs, Downstairs) are to the American brand what Yardley is to Lifebuoy. But after a slow start, Dallas grew from a guilty secret to a national craze. When the BBC broadcast last season's final episode, normally congested roads were clear and pubs empty as 30 million Britons (more than half of the U.K.'s population) stayed home to watch J.R. get his. On the news program that night, the BBC replayed the shooting as a news...
...started out as a trickle from places like Agawam, Mass., Diamond Bar, Calif., and Yardley, Pa. In short order it became a flood from Medford Lakes, N.J., Irvington, N.Y., Arvada, Colo., and all across the nation. Pictures of rosy-cheeked little girls in lace dresses and little boys who looked as though they would much rather be fishing than squirming in a photographer's studio. It is as if hundreds of thousands of American parents all thought that the high point of 1981 would be the moment when they could say to their friends and neighbors...