Word: hourglasses
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...Welby of the barnyard and the author of four bestsellers about an amiable animal doctor named James Herriot. The fourth, The Lord God Made Them All, revisits the peaceable kingdom of rural England, celebrates simple pleasures and, as before, pours time back and forth like sand in a kitchen hourglass...
...amuse and educate. Students of religion will find an impressive comprehension of the Judaic, Christian and Islamic ideas of the after life. History buffs should be diverted by the author's ability to mix notables, from Baron von Richthofen to U.S. Grant, like grains of sand in an hourglass. The greatest beneficiaries should be science fiction fans. For too long they have filled their shelves with charmless fantasies and technical jargon that talks to itself...
...York Daily News and a 15-year U.P.I. veteran: "The company ran a tightwad operation and was proud of it." For example, in the 1950s at least one U.P.I. bureau supplied its reporters with three-minute egg timers for longdistance calls. By the time the sand in the tiny hourglass ran out, says Oestreicher, "if you hadn't got the story, you'd hang...
...shape is generally structured, though there is a profusion of sacks, smocks, tunics and blousons. Otherwise, waists are cinched back to the hourglass with belts, cummerbunds, sashes and thongs...
Wollaston is the type of course that makes scratch golfers quake at address. It boasts the highest rating of any course in Massachusetts, as it sports 11 water holes and requires pinpoint driving to hit the hourglass fairways...