Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town of Clay Cross, residents resisted the plan of the left-dominated town council to hold a "republican day" on the 29th and instead festooned their buildings with red, white and blue bunting and covered the windows in the town center with Union Jacks. Local Leftist Leader Cliff Fox had previously gone on record calling the royal family "a bloody parasite on the backs of the working class," with the result that several residents suggested that he be run up the pole instead of the town's red flag. Fox made himself scarce on the wedding day. Even...
...whine of powerful engines could be heard inside the pavilion, where compulsories were still underway. A half-mile away, at the other end of this misbegotten amusement park, there was a steep hill, almost a cliff. Men and boys on motorcycles were climbing the hill, charging up its sandy face in five, maybe six, seconds. At the top, some men in leather jackets holding beers were timing. This, they informed me, was "hill climbing." It was, they added, good...
Heedless of Zeus, Prometheus gave the secret of fire to mortals, and was punished by being bound to a cliff in the wastes of Scythia. There an eagle fed on his liver, which, once consumed, grew back, only to be devoured again. A harsh response, considering that Prometheus only sought to give man a little mastery over nature. But Zeus was notorious for overreacting. Who knows what punishment he would have devised for the modern enlightened nations that, in the interest of mastery over nature, have handed out nuclear power with such deliberate generosity these past few years...
...ecology of the Everglades by increasing plankton growth; a loon can be imitated on the ocarina; geese occasionally become homosexual, pair-bonding for life even when heterosexual partners are present; an auk's egg is a marvel of engineering, shaped so that it will not roll from its cliff-edge nest...
...Brown men's lacrosse team's victory over Harvard last weekend was especially sweet for two reasons. First, Harvard had nipped the Bruins by a 12-11 count last season, on its way to the NCAA playoffs. Second, Brown head coach CLIFF STEVENSON, the only men's lacrosse coach in Brown history, likes every win he gets against Crimson coach BOB SCALISE (Brown '71), whom he coached during his All-American years at Brown...