Word: caning
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...sure, her vision is nearly gone, so she had to give up playing bridge at 110. She no longer travels solo to visit kin in Omaha, Neb., and San Diego, as she did at 100, and she relies on a cane to take steps, but Johnston can still hear fairly well, and she loves listening to books on tape. (Now it's Lark Rise to Candleford, about life at the end of the 19th century--a period otherwise known as her childhood...
...that has spawned starvation and suicide by thousands of desperate farmers, and even threatens to stunt India's surging economy. At this moment last Wednesday, Singh has orders to fly to the floods where, skirting the wrecks of two other crashed relief choppers, he drops packets of rice, sugar cane, matches and candles to marooned villagers who are crowding onto treetops and roofs. But Singh knows the mission could switch to the dry side at anytime. "Hundreds of thousands of people are starving," sighs the 35-year-old pilot. "Whatever we do, it's chicken feed...
...says. The military, meanwhile, accounts for much of their overseas business: “There’s a lot of longing for boiled peanuts felt over foreign posts.” Now in its tenth year, the original catalog has expanded to include numerous other Southern delicacies like cane syrup, benne wafers and scuppernong jelly. The Lee Bros. Cookbook, a compilation of the Lees’ own renditions of the classics of Southern cooking (“More tasty, less fatty,” is Matt’s description) is due out next year...
Prats then pulled the gong closer to himself with the cane while holding onto the ledge with his hand...
Finally, while holding onto the ledge with his cane, Prats cut the rope attaching the gong to the flagpole with his knife...