Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life. The move seems a bit too abrupt for a character whose susceptibility to drift has been so carefully established. But this is a minor disappointment in a novel animated by witty invention and lively personalities, including Edward the feisty corgi, whose bite is just as bad as his bark...
...response to Stanford was forceful. He threatened to publish a brochure which would offer students interested in Religious Studies the use of Harvard's Gutenberg Bible, a Rembrandt for Fine Arts specialists' rooms, and for American History student outings, the original Lewis and Clark birch bark canoe...
...real terror of the Everglades is Australia's Melaleuca quinquenervia, also known as cajeput, punk tree and paperbark tree. A close cousin of the eucalyptus, with shaggy bark and pale yellow flowers, it was introduced to Florida in 1906 by Forester John Gifford of the Department of Agriculture, who thought it might attract commercial woodcutters. Unfortunately, its / hardwood interior, hidden by a thick soft bark, is runny with water and difficult to saw. Moreover, the Melaleuca sucks up three times as much water as other swamp trees, thus drying out the land, and its leaves are filled with eucalyptol...
...California's Edwards Air Force Base, a more sophisticated system is being readied for use by test pilots who this fall will fly F-16 jets with voice- control equipment through simulated air and ground attacks. Rather than punching keys and flipping switches, pilots will bark out orders like "Arm the missiles!" Computers will then do the work, leaving the airmen free to concentrate on their targets...
...lost his of her way. You must choose fairness over fashions. You must choose to clothe the naked. The Bible teaches us that we judge character by how we treat the least of these; that we judge a tree by the fruit it bards, not by the bark it wears...