Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...events and its knowing portraits of people actually doing their jobs. Who, besides Wolfe, would have thought that banking and real estate transactions could be the stuff of gripping fiction? Who else would have set a scene, the most over-the-top in the whole novel, in the breeding barn at Turpmtine, where Charlie, in a misguided attempt to impress his guests from Atlanta, makes them, male and female alike, witness a tumultuous mating between one of his stallions and a mare? "I attended just such an event in mixed company in south Georgia," Wolfe says, "and I'll never...
...part of cross-country is mentally being able to overcome changes in pace," Martin said. "A lot of times the first mile can turn into a barn burner and you'll end up sucking wind early in the race, but that's the makeup of a really great runner--someone who is able to react to changes like that...
...Apple Farm presses its own apples into sweet cider and hard cider. The sweet apple scent drifts through the chill air in the wooden barn that serves as factory, bakery and shop...
Customers can take home jams, jellies and spreads, and freshly-baked apple dumplings, pies and cider donuts. A sign in the barn advertises "everlasting bouquets"--dried flower bunches that hang from the rafters. A collection of cider bottles from around the world lines one of the barn's wooden beams...
...evening last month, in the barn of a farm in Bellville, Ohio, about a dozen fox farmers stood around, hands in belts, watching a video. On the screen, a bevy of thin, gorgeous, haughty women strode down the catwalk, all wearing something furry. It was a compilation of high-fashion shows from Milan, and while the farmers were more bemused than impressed, that tape may represent their best hope for a lucrative future...