Word: bivouac
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...While sex had been forbidden among the Tigers, the FARC's more relaxed view is evidenced by the fact that many of their women fighters wear Nor-plant contraceptives to avoid pregnancy. There's no prohibition on casual sex in the hammocks and wooden plank beds where coed units bivouac, but any permanent coupling requires prior approval from the unit commander. "When you're so close to death," said one guerrilla named Sandra, "your relationship is very intense, very intimate. None of us have any money, so if you want to show somebody you love them, you share your food...
...narrower trees are supported by stilt-roots at the base that look like whisk brooms. The Parkia tree rises to the sun and spreads a flat umbrella over the others. There is full employment. Trees support lizards and insects, which themselves support birds and monkeys. Army ants bivouac and hang from tree limbs in living nests, with their pupae asleep in the center. Sometimes the trees become food; they can be devoured by strangler figs, which grow from seeds dropped by birds, then rise and surround a tree like a parasitic vine, swallow it whole and take its place...
...Direct Action Committee," Denovo took part in protests over plans by the university and the city of Berkeley to build volleyball courts at People's Park, long a refuge of the homeless. She had a history of psychiatric treatment and was arrested last year for stashing explosives at a bivouac in the Berkeley hills...
...hands at the White House. Instead, they gravitated to a notorious hobo jungle in Santa Barbara, Calif., near Ronald and Nancy Reagan's vacation home. On a tour sponsored by International Peace Walk, Inc., a Washington organization, ten Soviets accepted an invitation last week to lunch at a scruffy bivouac tucked between Santa Barbara's railroad yards and beachfront...
...trip was to be a kind of homecoming. He had been obsessed with Sherman's legacy since coming North to school and was all set to film a serious documentary about the man whose infamy lives below the Mason-Dixon line. Taking a quick detour in New York to bivouac with his girlfriend, McElwee...