Word: barn
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Seeking to escape a childhood of drudgery, Anna married a tough young vagabond named Big Karl whom she met at a barn dance. He promised freedom and adventure, but the dream went unrealized: for seven years she followed him up and down Norway, always adrift and usually starving. She worked at various times as a farmhand and lumberjack, only to watch him disappear and squander her money...
Over the years, the White House has been declared unfit for family habitation. The Trumans called it a goldfish bowl, Jackie Kennedy grumbled that it was a barn, Julie Nixon Eisenhower referred to it as a museum. But the Fords, who never lived in a house larger than eight rooms before being catapulted into the 132-room Executive Mansion, obviously disagree, at least...
Farmers in 40 states are involved in the operation. Manure from dairy-barn floors is collected in underground tanks. The mixture is then treated with a chemical concocted by RJB Founder Richard J. Briggs that is the key to the whole enterprise: it permits the material to be shipped without the buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain...
There was another barn-burner on the IAB hardcourt last night. It took a furious last-minute rally, but Harvard's varsity basketball squad pulled out a dramatic 64-62 victory over a winless Dartmouth quintet which was missing its best player, forward Adam Sutton...
Women had musical ability but seldom on the right instruments; parents liked girls to play the piano, not phallic bass guitars. Rock was blues electrified, rough music from back of the barn. English groups who adopted the sound in the late '60s did little to improve the image with guitar smashing and satanic prancing. When 16-year-old Singer Maria Muldaur proudly brought home her first recording contract, her mother immediately tore it up. Says Maria: "She was afraid it would lead me into white slavery...