Word: dungeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voters went to the polls and defeated the amendment. But such a reprieve could be only temporary. James Schwarzenbach, a parliamentary deputy and Zurich publisher who criticized Oehen's amendment as "too many too soon," announced that he was already drawing up another, less severe proposal against Uherfrem-dung (foreign saturation...
...head off such a national calamity, the Wild Life Department came up with a bounty of $30 per Bufo, and the Darwin Conservation Society put up another $7.50. When angry cattle farmers, fearing that the toads would eat the dung beetles that eat disease-spreading flies, demanded that the education department pay a $1,500 reward for each toad, the federal government in Canberra countered that such an absurdly high bounty might lead to the clandestine import of more toads from Queensland. Anticipating that, the Northern Territory promised to fine all Bufo bootleggers...
...James Kilpatrick and Joseph Alsop in the antipress chorus on the Kissinger incident. Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger?a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"?might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder." Well, hardly. But the press?especially Washington newsmen?had indeed given the unfortunate impression of ganging up on the only hero in town...
...drop below freezing at night. He describes the stunning beauty of desert sunsets and the soporific, swaying movement of the camel. He can make a reader comfortably fixed with a Scotch in his hand share the blessed glee of finding brackish water dotted with camel dung that is worth more than gold or oil in a sea of sand...
...Special. Kahn, 38, is the author of three books on the art of handmade home building. His present house, a redwood-shingled geodesic dome flanked by a three-story watchtower, is a dumpyard special. "I must have washed 10,000 board feet to get off the chicken and horse dung and spilled wine," says Kahn about his castoff supplies. But he has no complaints about the price, just $8,500 for the dome and tower, plus $3,500 for the lot (100 ft. by 100 ft). Nor does he begrudge his eight months of hard labor. "Carpenters have a remarkably...