Word: deere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among the people of Xabis. They made vessels of clay, stone and copper, wove cloth and mats from palm leaves and fashioned other copper objects, including axes, nails and pins. Some of the work is highly ornamental. Two metal plates, for instance, are engraved with images of fish and deer. A 9-in.-sq. metal flag, attached to a yard-long staff adorned by an eagle, is decorated with two seated lions and a bull. The flag also depicts a goddess and several other women, perhaps her attendants, which suggests that it may once have been displayed in a temple...
Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...
...committee initiated a black studies program at Deer Island Prison this week, Rodriguez said. He said that next fall PBH will actively recruit black studies instructors...
...committee also plans to expand its summer program this year. Summer activities will include teaching programs at Deer Island Prison and the Charles Street Jail, as well as research work on penal reform...
...people most directly affected, of course, are the present residents of Aitkin County. Some have banded together to form a "Save Our Northland" committee devoted to doing everything it can to preserve the area's deer and quail hunting and wild, uncrowded spaces. But other residents favor having MXC as a neighbor. "What do we have to lose?" asks Housewife Barbara Hansen. Right now the county's job opportunities are so limited that the only future for her children is "a one-way ticket to Minneapolis. With MXC we have a chance to give them a choice...