Word: figs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morrow; $15). The pick of a good year: the author, a fine watercolor artist, follows a little Zimbabwean girl as she wakes up at dawn and walks miles through forests and grasslands to her school. Small children can have fun finding Manyoni's tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave paintings, based on work by prehistoric artists...
...Rudenstine and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles have assured me that this correspondence won't be in the public records. Alas, they seem not to understand the issue at hand. I'm not at all embarrassed about the contents of this correspondence; I care not a fig whether it is or is not in the public record. I was simply helping the Semitic Museum collect money from a donor who had committed to give more than he had actually turned over...
Criticizing Harvard's football team after a one-sided loss is usually like eating a Fig Newton: you first carefully nibble at a thin outer layer of remediable vices before getting to the icky heart of the matter...
...there is a reason to stop by U Hall B1--a tempting reason. Cookies. Hordes of them. Chocolate chip, oatmeal, Oreo, gingerbread, lemon snaps, vanilla wafers, fig newtons, macaroons--you name...
...Dayan, the one-eyed hero of Israel's early wars against the Arabs, "The end of the conflict will mean we can be comfortable in our own skin. We can stop being worriers, missionaries, occupiers. We can be Middle Eastern, Mediterranean; we can eat watermelon and sit under our fig trees, while also producing the best computers and medical equipment in the world...