Word: boas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lose. After years of delays, work is finally surging ahead this month on the 798-mile steel boa that will stretch from the wells at Prudhoe Bay to the deep-water port of Valdez (pronounced Val-deez), where block-long tankers will be loaded for the trip to West Coast refineries. Already, 12,000 men and women are on the job building, excavating and servicing, and by midsummer the number will swell to 20,000 as the pipeline contractors drive to make their target date of mid-1977. The spongy, oil-soaked strata nearly two miles beneath the tundra...
...foreign aid grain, reminding me that three hundred miles away there was a drought and people were starving. But life in the big city goes on as always. Abidjan's sidewalk cafes were full of people drinking and fending off the hordes of peddlars, who sell anything from boa constrictor skins to nose-rings, and have cousins in every port...
...people from Rhode Island," she said. The show is not scheduled to open on Broadway until the end of the month, but Genevieve is already plotting her entrance at the opening-night party. "I think I'll wear white, with a long ermine boa and diamonds...
Among the more outlandish guests in TIME homes are a toad, Pierrot, kept by Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate's children, two raccoons belonging to Senior Editor Marshall Loeb's daughter, Margaret, and Picture Editor John Durniak's boa constrictor, Charlie. Legends about TIME pets breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts...
Messing, who gained notice at Harvard for keeping a boa constrictor in his room and eating a wine glass to demonstrate his "true grit," said the venture was "strictly a business deal. I figured the publicity and money would be good...