Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case in point: of the 5 million acres of tallgrass prairie that rippled to the horizon when settlers first forged west across what is now Iowa, only 200 remain, much of it in bits and pieces along highways. Butterflies are the main pollinators of those grasses and flowers, but the variety of vegetation is rapidly decreasing as the butterflies are forced to forage for nectar in ever smaller prairie fragments. Prairie phlox, for example, one of the most common Great Plains flowers, depends on the butterflies to reproduce. But if the phlox is broken up into small stands, the butterflies...
...shift was usually cranking up for another round of mayhem. Since Cu Chi was a "free strike" zone, local U.S. commanders didn't really feel they were doing their job if they weren't chewing up the countryside more or less nonstop. Consequently, as the sun dipped below the horizon, artillery shells would whistle down through the jungle canopy and throw up enormous red sprays of laterite-clay clods...
...seems to thaw out in her husband's presence, and there is sweetness in their silent campaign interplay. Coming off the campaign plane two weeks ago in Birmingham, Alabama, she grabbed his arm and made him gaze for a moment at the spectacular red sunset on the horizon. At the end of a long day, she kneads his shoulders, rubs his arm in encouragement, shoots him a supportive smile. Dole, the good Midwesterner, is allergic to public displays of affection--except from his Elizabeth. They seem to share a secret code of gestures: Elizabeth pats him on the lower back...
...than the next youngest girl, and a couple of inches short of 5 ft. tall. She destroyed the field, recalls Schubert with the misty look of a trainer who knows he isn't likely to see anything like that again. By the time the Seoul Olympics were on the horizon, competition in women's distance swimming tended to be for second place. In the last 30 or 35 m of a cruelly arduous race, against the best the world could send her, she would surge ahead unbelievably, often swimming the remaining distance without breathing. She was an aerobic marvel whose...
...when Carey challenges Broderick to a joust that we see the stormy seas of psychosis on the horizon? Was it when he plays "Dirty Password"--"The adult version of the popular game show"--with Broderick's mother and girlfriend? Or how about the time he sets Broderick up with a girl who later turns out to be a prostitute? Really, there are so many warning signs that our friend The Cable Guy is one big psycho...