Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past her, cast by a nearby tan, four-story building that looks like a gigantic bread box. Inside the bread box is the Multiple Mirror Telescope, the world's third most powerful telescope. It looks like no other. There is no glistening dome; it might be a four-story barn. But there are 800 * tons of it, and it turns. The whole structure can pirouette 360 degrees, enormously simplifying the aiming of the instrument. It is probably the world's only building with snowplow blades on its corners to clear a path as it rotates about a circular track. When...
...historian, relates that in the early caucuses the requirement that time and place be posted on a tree was sometimes met by partisans' peeling the bark away, nailing the notice on the bare spot, then tacking the bark back over the notice. Once, says Mills, progressives found an old barn that they torched just as the Republican caucus began, and the unwitting standpatters rushed out of the hall to help with the fire while the progressives stayed, voted their will, then adjourned...
There probably will not be any barn burnings on this caucus night. But the airwaves will have been heated with exorbitant claims of the leadership qualities of the candidates, and the television folk heroes will have arrived along with 2,499 other journalists. The hype will reach to the far stars. Iowa will seem far bigger than it really is. America will have to rely on the enduring sense of those quiet heartland people...
Soon, Israel's rickety barn was stuffed with salvage. One spring day, his lovesick bull crashed through the barn wall and trampled over months of careful collecting. Says Israel: "So it was goodbye cows, hello salvage." Since 1979, the firm has grown beyond Israel's wildest dreams, allowing him other expensive sidelines. He recently opened a motorcycle shop that reconditions and sells vintage Harley-Davidsons. But fan-shaped stained-glass windows and ornate heat registers remain his central passions and his righteous mission. "If the Rockefellers or the Hearsts saw a library in England they liked, they bought...
...TOURED the T.V. studio where the PTL Club is filmed. The other tourists gushed--starstruck over the baby blue carpet and the gazebo set where the gospel singers perform. They were awed by the barn-like room where the Heritage USA congregation prays on Sunday (presumably to the T.V. cameras dominating the middle of the room...