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...Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take a tablespoon of mustard, mix in warm water and sprinkle it on an area of lawn about a yard square. In two or three minutes, the worms will wriggle to the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

WESTERN EUROPE has recorded one of the hottest, dryest summers in a century. City dwellers have sweltered through abnormally hot days. Farmers in England, northern France, Belgium, northern Italy and West Germany went months without rain, while their fields dried out and their crops shriveled. "My potatoes that should be fist-sized are as big as my thumb," complained a farmer near the small Bavarian village of Hersbruck. "That's what this cursed weather has done." The drought has also turned what promised to be a record British grain harvest into a disaster, lowering harvest expectations from 17.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The World's Climate: Unpredictable | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed in a court room alone with such an overwhelming personality...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Maybe You Had to Be There | 4/21/1973 | See Source »

...trade, Dr. Fidel Castro and a group of his followers made the first landing on the coast of Cape Cruz. The august London Times, which is generally amused by furtive rebellions in South America, took advantage of the occasion to chuckle mildly at the insurgent invasion, and in its dryest patriarchal manner advised the rebels to put down their guns and go home...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Times Out of Joint | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

George W. Yonkers, chief of the Petersham, Massachusetts, fire department said that the fire fighters were hampered by forty-five-mile-an-hour winds and the dryest possible forest conditions...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Harvard Forest Fire Burns Out 125 Acres | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

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