Word: clambering
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...characters in Pastoralia try desperately to clamber up out of their ruts. In Winky, Neil Yaniky goes to a local Hyatt to hear a self-help guru named Tom Rodgers tell the paying guests how to get other people to stop "crapping in your oatmeal." Yaniky adopts the speaker's recommended mantra--"Now is the time for me to win"-- but can't muster the appalling selfishness to act on those words and kick his deranged sister out of his house...
...While you're being served breakfast or lunch on white linen tablecloths in the dining car, you can see gulls and great blue herons wheeling close by, ducks paddling in the marshes and even furry, bewhiskered sea otters that frolic in the water and clamber up the beach toward you. If the day is clear, you can catch glimpses of Mount Hood and Mount Rainier, and you'll pass forests of fir and cedar. For man-made wonders, look for the formidable container ships in Seattle's harbor and the giant Boeing plant. Whether you travel north or south...
...spattered Renault Le Car chugs to a halt on a dirt road overlooking Serbia's snow-covered Presevo Valley. Out clamber three men dressed in mismatched fatigues, toting an assortment of pistols and grenades. The apparent leader, a deeply tanned, shorter version of Fidel Castro, steps forward. "Welcome," he says, "to Kosovo, Part...
...best person to teach your child? What if your kid yearns to clamber up the school steps every day clutching her Hello Kitty lunch pail? "When people are trying to teach unwilling children," says Dorothy Werner, a 1970s "unschooler" from Chicago, "it doesn't work well. But home schooling is very affirming to children because they get a tremendous amount of attention...
...tourists had come to clamber through the miles of unforgiving forest inclines, hoping at the end of it to see a handful of the world's 600 remaining mountain gorillas at play. But something else lay waiting in the Ugandan mist. Shortly after dawn last Monday, 100 Rwandan Hutus, screaming and brandishing machetes and guns, raided three camps outside the Bwindi national park, where several dozen tourists were just waking. The Hutus eventually seized 14 tourists they believed to be American and British and forced them to march barefoot into the hills. Only six returned to camp alive; the rest...