Word: cushioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little Merilee saw an animal kicked. And swore on the spot never to kick an animal. Now the vow has been betrayed. Dear Alfred. She is writing him a letter. In this heat even rattle snakes entwine in the shade of a cactus. And on torrid desert updrafts eagles cushion themselves for making eggs fertile. But we humans were not meant for such comforts. Longings we may have, sensations that alone we are incomplete. Organs for coupling and mouths for communication. But pity us, old Alfred. We are, finally, not built for it. Togethered, humans lose their selves, forget their...
...dreaded Staublawine (German for dust avalanche), which may occur, for example, when heavy new snowfalls fail to cling to the older foundation and begin to slide in billowing masses down the slope. It can be set off by a sudden shift of wind. Literally riding on a cushion of air at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., dust avalanches create such enormous pressure differentials that they have been known to pull people out of their homes or knock down scores of trees without actually striking them...
Turco beat Green goaltender Tom Schuster on a breakaway at 5:15 of the first period to provide an early cushion and ten minutes later. Mark did the same, bursting through a lethargic Indian defense and getting a pretty pass from Turco to set up another breakaway...
...leave Biafra, ostensibly to seek help elsewhere, actually to facilitate the surrender. Ojukwu later claimed that the decision was his; in Lagos, there were contrary reports that Effiong and other dissenters had forced Ojukwu to go. In any case, Ojukwu departed with bank accounts in London and Zurich to cushion the blow. With Ojukwu gone, Effiong broadcast a call for a cease-fire over a mobile radio transmitter. "Our people are now disillusioned," he said, "and those elements of the old government regime who have made negotiations and reconciliations impossible have voluntarily removed themselves from our midst...
...What You Want," which will make you hate yourself for not being in the front row of the Boston Garden last Thanksgiving. And the tapes of Woodstock may so infect you with the spirit of that great historio-cultural event as to talk with the person on the cushion next to yours...