Word: hammock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mysterious, romantic or comical, written by savvy veterans or bright, fresh talents, here are nine novels and story collections for the beach, hammock and porch...
...animal high spirits were not, however, confined to the gentleman's later years. When young, Waterton made four separate trips to South America, where he sought the wourali poison (a cure, he was convinced, for hydrophobia), and once spent months on end with one foot dangling from his hammock in the quixotic hope of having his toe sucked by a vampire...
Mysteries, short stories, romances and first novels make up an all- fiction fiesta of summer reading for hammock, porch and beach...
Well, not exactly. If Du Page and dozens of other fast-growing counties all over the U.S. are beginning to look like spread-out cities, most of their residents can still loll in a hammock in a spacious backyard on a late-spring evening. But these counties are hardly suburbs anymore, at least in the traditional sense of being bedroom communities for nearby cities. Not only jobs but also gourmet restaurants and chic stores are close at hand. As a result, people like Engineer Daniel Nee, a resident of Gwinnett County, Ga., 18 miles from Atlanta, commonly go six months...
...across the nation are expected to come to Harvard in April for a three day ODN-sponsored conference entitled "The Dilemmas of Development." Guest speakers will include S. Shahid Husain, vice-president for operation policy at the World Bank, Stephen Lewis, Canadian representative to the United Nations, and John Hammock, executive director of OXFAM-America...