Word: flora
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drama. The action of the play centers on Miss Giddens (Ellen Harvey), a young governess for an unusual family in an old English country house, circa the late 1800's. The only residents of this isolated estate are two adolescent children, brother and sister, named Miles (Glen Whitney) and Flora (Kathy Urso), and their maid, Mrs. Grose (Carolyn Duffy...
...shared addiction to the rather obscure sport gives the hard-core players an identity as foosers. "It's a clique of addicts," says Manuel Lopez '89. And Flora Chang '86-'87 says, "A lot of the people in Quincy recognized me because I played foosball...
...readers how to identify, buy, store, clean and prepare jicama, atemoya, daikon, nopales and calabaza, among dozens of others. Although some of the fruits and vegetables in this compendium are hardly uncommon to old-world chefs (celeriac, parsley root, arugula, broccoli rab and gooseberries, for example), they can be flora incognito to many new chefs. Not after this...
...stethoscope-like device that can pick up the munching sounds of insects as they feed inside fruits and grains is being tested at a USDA laboratory in ) Gainesville, Fla. Not all methods are mechanical. In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, beagles have been trained to detect contraband flora. Jackpot, J.F.K.'s first beagle, has sniffed out oranges, papayas and two 10- lb. mangoes -- as well as salami, ham, cheese, live birds and a can of lime- scented shaving cream...
...Spires, son of Arthur ("Big Boy") Spires, was located in a project called Magnolia Heights, near a cotton hamlet named Flora. White had spoken to Spires on the telephone earlier, and Spires had agreed to ride over to Jack Owens' place and make a little music, asking only that White "bring a lift- up." To that end, bourbon had been laid in, and now as Bud Spires gets into the car, he mentions that he "wouldn't mind a little something to get my nerves on the ready." So Spires settled his nerves, and so did White...