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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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SO MUCH FOR and DUST-RADDLED

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00could someone explain to me these expressions I have found reading Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"?:02br
00 'Alice -what a wonderful name for a town, Alice. It had 162 inhabitants in 1950 and 124 at the last census -AND SO MUCH FOR FOR THE POPULATION EXPLOSION at Alice. 02br
00(...) Anyway I could still think of Fargo as I always had -BLIZZARD-RIVEN, heat blasted, DUST-RADDLED.02br
00 Thanks in advance, Jo. 0-
  

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0 AND SO MUCH FOR FOR THE POPULATION EXPLOSION at Alice02br 02br 00At the time that Steinbeck write this, there had been a substantial growth in population (new babies being born) following the return of the soldiers after the war. 0-

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  • 0 AND SO MUCH FOR FOR THE POPULATION EXPLOSION at Alice02br 02br 00At the time that Steinbeck write this, there had been a substantial growth in population (new babies being born) following the return of the soldiers after the war.
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0 AND SO MUCH FOR FOR THE POPULATION EXPLOSION at Alice02br
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00At the time that Steinbeck write this, there had been a substantial growth in population (new babies being born) following the return of the soldiers after the war. However, in Alice, the population had gone down, not up, so the Population Explosion had not happened in Alice.02br
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