Word: hunkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum dissectum (Japanese spiderleaf) and Franklin Roosevelt's Tilia cordata, the little-leaf linden. They whisper and exult in the breezes and hunker down for the storms. They make grand harmony. "No politics here," says Williams, who moves among the 66 species of trees, pruning, feeding and enticing life to its fullest...
...there is far more than humor in this collection. The Fishermen of the Seine evokes, in a style as spare as Maupassant or Simenon, the ponts and iles of Paris at dawn, when rough-clad men hunker in the fog to hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...
...Colony Tap in Provincetown, Mass., everything looks like business as usual as the locals hunker down for a long winter of serious drinking. They hardly seem to notice a good-looking man who answers the telephone, then suddenly bolts out the door and into the street, where a white Rolls-Royce speeds away. Four times this is repeated before finally Norman Mailer says, "Print." The day's twelve hours of shooting will not wrap until 3 a.m. Such grueling conditions might test the patience of a film veteran, let alone a neophyte director making his first major motion picture...
Some hard-line factions are not interested in deeds or words. They are apparently convinced that Gorbachev should hunker down and wait until Reagan gallops off into the sunset. "Many in the leadership believe (a second summit) is not in the Soviet interest," says a Western diplomat. "Many here believe it is impossible to do business with Reagan...
...both teachers and neither gifted chess players, now oversee the children's careers full time. The girls have never attended conventional schools, and study a high school curriculum at home between practice games. On a typical day, they rise at midmorning, trot out for a game of soccer, then hunker over their chessboards until early afternoon, when teams of expert volunteers arrive to rehearse opening gambits and defense strategies until late in the evening...