Word: hops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transformed in mid-1982 into an ingenious recreation park by the architectural firm Roy P. Harrover & Associates. Fifty-acre Mud Island, just off the center of downtown, is now attracting national attention. It offers riverside recreation, marinas, a 4,300-seat auditorium and audiovisual displays. Kids love to hop, skip and splash down a 2,000-ft.-long contour model of the Mississippi River as they study historical and geographical markers...
...invertebrate segmented animals, say the dictionaries. The Audubon Society Book of Insects (Abrams; 283 pages; $50) offers a more generous definition of the six-legged creatures: "Fellow inhabitants of our fragile planet earth." But what fellows! Bombardiers and borers, water sprites, builders and architects, singers and aviators all fly, hop and crawl through the pages of this extraordinary zoo without screens. A commonplace grasshopper on a black-eyed Susan takes on the dazzle of a Van Gogh landscape; a mangrove glows like a Christmas tree as thousands of fireflies illuminate its heavy branches. The text, by Naturalists Lorus and Margery...
...Even if there had been, it would have been no easy trick to get them swiftly back home. The U.S. bombing around St. George's knocked out a transmission center, severing cable and tele phone facilities. In order to send their stories, reporters had to hop a military plane back to Barbados...
...embassies. Following meticulous plans, thousands of marchers slowly formed a human star, several miles around, whose points linked the embassies of the world's nuclear powers: the U.S., Britain, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, South Africa, India and the Soviet Union. The protesters chanted "Hop, hop, hop, Atomraketen stop" and other anti-deployment slogans. Outside the Soviet embassy overlooking nearby Bad Godesberg, hooded men in Ku Klux Klan robes hauled a float carrying six models of silver Pershing II missiles, as four white-faced death figures walked behind. Above a crowd of protesters...
...premier power, the New York site also draws to the United States all the world's leaders and top diplomats, enabling them to see American pluralism firsthand. The United Nations' proximity to the nation's capital gives the United States an unqualified edge in the diplomatic world; a short hop to Washington, D.C. allows foreign dignitaries visiting the United Nations to meet their American counterparts for important bilateral consultations. And contrary to the President's appraisal of American public opinion, a recent New York Times CBS News Poll showed that by a 3 to 1 ration. Americans favor keeping United...