Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard skiers, on the other hand, do not necessarily eat, breathe and run skiing. While many of their opponents in this weekend's Division I carnival at UVM have their sights on the Olympic games, the Crimson doesn't even have its own permanent coach...
...only are the hours long, but the work is almost always monotonous hand labor; and many times this summer I felt I had been transported back in time several centuries. We spent most of the time picking fruit: peaches, pears, and cherries. Each day, every day, we slowly wound our way among the trees, picking the fruits as quickly as we could, as time ticked by ever so slowly. The Vallets had only 30 acres, less than one-tenth the size of the average American farm, and so every last fruit had to be picked, and not a peach could...
...village, Moras En Valloire. Next to our peach orchard was a small tobacco field, where a father and son worked each day from early morning until late at night. From where we picked peaches we could see them, bent over like tumbled-down scarecrows, pulling the weeds out by hand as they slowly moved up and down the rows...
Nicholas, viens ici," he called; so with pounding heart and sweating hands, I joined him near the engine. To my horror he didn't even shut off the motor, much less allow it to cool off. Impatiently, he told me to hold the funnel as he poured the diesel into the tank. I did so with much trepidation, half-expecting the diesel to splash onto the red hot exhaust pipe six inches away, blowing up all to kingdom come at any moment. I really grew panicky when Gilles switched his lit cigarette from his right hand to his mouth. Even...
...course of the decade, synthetic sex came a long way from the first models, the inflatables and the hand-windups, to the prototypes with thermostats and feedback. The originals of these copies are long dead, or else are now decrepit crones, but teflon, nylon, dralon, and Sexofix have withstood the wear of time...