Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optimistic in this world...[thinking that there is] a better chance at maintaining stability and peace than to start to fool around with the system in significant ways. I'm concerned that the direction we're going is putting with respect to nuclear weapons too much weight on the camel's back...and we haven't even mentioned proliferation, which of course is going to complicate it....So I'm a pessimist...
...Criswell has been raising cotton on his 1,700-acre farm in Idalou, Texas, since 1955. Cotton is called the camel of crops because it requires little water, yet Criswell is now in trouble. His water table has dropped 100 ft. since he started farming. Nine years ago, he paid $4 an acre to water his cotton; today he pays more than $45. "It's like a disease," he says. "You just accept it and go on." Gerald Wiechman farms 6,000 acres and feeds 2,500 head of steer near Scott City in western Kansas. When his farm...
...shlock--this song was there and really meant something. It was a political statement that asked people to stand up and vote with their feet. You caught the infectiousness of the 52's "Rock Lobster" and moved in ways you never dreamed of You did the Shy Tuna, the Camel Walk, the Shu-ga-loo and many more inane dances...
...hosts, "I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. (1 Samuel...
...Come here, I want you to see something," said Pate to P.G.A. Tour Commissioner Deane Beman, 43, leading him to the edge of the water hazard near the 18th green. Too late. Into four feet of water, said to be inhabited by a sleepy, well-fed alligator, went Beman, camel blazer, tassled loafers and all. Pate then cast Tournament Players Club course Architect Pete Dye, 56, in too. "Jerry made us both look like a pair of awkward storks," says Beman. "Then he makes the most perfect dive you've ever seen. Absolutely flawless form...